Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3284SW ALWYNE ROAD 635-1/54/17 (South East side) Nos.33 AND 34

GV II

Semi-detached houses. 1847-9. Developed, and probably designed, by James Wagstaffe. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond with stucco dressings and roof of slate. Three storeys over basement, three windows each, the entrance in a two storey outer bay, slightly set back. Basement stuccoed with banded rustication. Steps up to flat-arched entrance with pilaster-jambs, cornice, overlight and panelled door of original design, that to no 33 set back in an added, round-arched porch with archovlolt, keystone and panelled spandrels; one window above, that to no 33 with architrave and cornice on consoles, to no 34 cambered-arched; cornice and blocking course. On the rest of each house, flat-arched windows, those to ground and first floor having architrave and cornice on consoles, those to second floor having architrave linked to the bracketed and moulded eaves cornice; ground-floor windows have bracketed balconies with cast-iron railings; hipped roof, stacks to party wall. Single storey late C20 extension to each house. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3209484386

External Links

• Wikidata Q26499592

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