Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NW AMWELL STREET 635-1/68/33 (West side) 29/09/72 Nos.33-41 (Odd) and railings attached to no. 37 (Formerly Listed as: AMWELL STREET (West side) Nos.33-65 (Odd))

GV II

Includes: No.25 LLOYD BAKER STREET. Six terraced houses. 1828-1829; mid to late C19 shopfronts altered. By William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor for the New River Estate. Multi-coloured stock brick set in Flemish bond (no. 25 Lloyd Baker Street partly refaced) with wooden shopfronts and stucco dressings; roofs obscured, party-wall brick stacks. Ground-floor shops; side-hall entrance plan to upper domestic floors. Three storeys with basement; 2 windows each. No. 25 Lloyd Baker Street with C20 corner shopfront; Nos. 33-41 Amwell Street with mid and later C19 shopfronts articulated by console bracketed pilasters carrying entablature. No. 35 particularly good 3 bay shopfront: steps rise to shop door to right and to centre a 3-light bay window with panelling below; original panelled house door with rectangular overlight to left; glass fascia painted with gold lettering on brown ground inscribed 'W.C. & K. King Chemists', cornice above. Nos. 37-41 shopfronts with pilasters carrying entablature with curved projecting cornice; windows altered. Gauged brick flat arches with 6/6 sashes to upper floors; 1st floor stucco sill band beneath full-length sashes set in arched brick recesses with paired iron balconies to no. 35 with fine wrought-iron railings. Some rebuilding to upper floors. Plain brick parapets, most with stone coping; stucco cornice with blocking course to 25 Lloyd Baker Street and 33 Amwell Street. Attached cast-iron railings to no. 37.

Listing NGR: TQ3116382823

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