Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NW WILMINGTON SQUARE 635-1/68/905 (North East side) 29/09/72 Nos.13-19;19A,20-20B, 21 and attached railings

GV II

Nine terraced houses. 1819-1831. By John Wilson, builder for Lord Compton and the Spa Fields Estate. Yellow stock brick laid in Flemish bond with banded stucco ground-floor and stucco dressings; roofs obscured by parapet, brick party-wall stacks. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase. Four storeys with basement; 2 windows each except original no. 20 (now called 18-21 flat 3) with 3-window (all blind) range to left-hand return wall. Symmetrical group with projecting end-houses (nos. 13-15 & 19-21) and nos. 16-18 being a plain recessed centrepiece. Steps rise to entrance (left end house with 1-storey entrance extension): round-arched doorway set in narrow stucco recess with fluted 1/4 column jambs carrying corniced-head, fanlight (nos. 13 & 17 patterned), and original (except no. 13) panelled door. Ground-floor round-arched sashes with mostly 6/6 curved and radial glazing bars. Gauged-brick flat arches to upper storeys. 1st floor stucco sill band beneath full-length 6/6 sashes with coupled cast-iron balconies supported by iron brackets; 6/6 and 3/3 sashes to 2nd and 3rd floors respectively. Stucco storey and sill bands and projecting cornice to 3rd floor. Plain brick parapet with brick string course and stone coping. Attached cast-iron railings with urn finials. Wilmington Square was created from the Earls of Northampton's Spa Fields Estate, which in 1817 the 9th Earl assigned to his heir Lord Compton. The subsequent building in Wilmington Square was one of London's 1st post-Waterloo developments. Progress was piecemeal: the south terrace was the 1st and grandest; in the east terrace nos. 13-14 were built at the same time as the south terrace but nos. 15-21 were not completed until 1831. For financial reasons the square was reduced in depth and thus became a backwater on the fringes of estates. (The Squares of Islington: Cosh, M: The Squares of Islington Part I: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: Islington: 1990-: 57-58).

Listing NGR: TQ3123182585

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)