Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3082NE WHARTON STREET 635-1/67/895 (North side) 29/09/72 Nos.5-24 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WHARTON STREET Nos.5-24; 33-47 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of 20 semi-detached linked villas. On slope of hill. Street laid out in 1832 by John Booth, and his son, also John, Surveyors for the Lloyd Baker Estate. Gold stock bricks set in Flemish bond with stucco dressings, and stucco pediment over each pair; Welsh (nos. 6, 10, 12) and artificial slate gabled roofs, others obscured by parapet; centre brick or stucco rendered stacks. Side-hall entrance plan to outer linked bay of each house. Restrained Greek Revival style. Two-storeys with basements; 2-windows each including recessed 1-window entrance bays coupled as link. Low steps rise to deeply recessed stucco entrance with antae supporting entablature surmounted by C20 reproduction iron balcony railings. Architraved doorway with pair of 3-panelled doors except to nos. 5-10 (4 & 6-panelled single door). Architraved sashes throughout: ground-floor with predominantly 6/6 sashes with margin lights except to nos. 7-10, 12, 14, 21, 24 (8/8) and 1st floor 8/8 sashes except nos. 18-20, 22, 23 (6/6 with margin lights) and nos. 23-24 with cast-iron Neo-classical window guards in palmette pattern; 1st floor recessed balconied links with narrower doors nos. 20, 21, 23, 24 (original) or various sashes. Plain stucco band beneath pediments; stucco parapet with stone coping or blocking course to 1st floor recessed link. Attached iron railings. (Historians File, English Heritage, London Division: 1990-; The Squares of Islington: Mary Cosh: The Squares of Islington Part I: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: Islington: 1990-: 57-58).

Listing NGR: TQ3092082736

External Links

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