Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NW AMWELL STREET 635-1/68/37 (West side) 29/09/72 Nos.67A, 67-83 (Odd) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: AMWELL STREET Nos.67-83 (Odd))

GV II

Nine terraced houses on west side of slope of hill approaching Claremont Square from the south. 1828-1829. By William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor for the New River Estate. Yellow stock brick set in Flemish bond with banded stucco ground-floor and stucco dressings; roofs obscured, party-wall brick stacks. Side-hall entrance plan. Three storeys with basement except no. 83 (four storeys with basement); 2 windows each with left-hand return wall to no. 67A (2 X 2) and right-hand return wall to no. 83 (1 window wide). Steps rise to round-arched (except no. 83) entrance (nos. 67A & 83 with side entrance in Great Percy and Cruickshank Streets): doorway with 1/4 column jambs to nos. 75-81 (no. 67 with reeded surround; remainder with pilaster jambs), corniced-head, fanlight (nos. 67A, 71, 77, 81 patterned) and original panelled doors to nos. 67, 73, 75, 77. Predominantly 6/6 and 8/8 sashes to ground-floors: round-arched sashes to nos. 67-71 set in stucco recess; Gothic style curved and intersecting glazing bars to no. 69. and cast-iron window guards to nos. 73, 75, 83. Gauged-brick flat arches with mostly 6/6 sashes to upper floors; 1st floor stucco sill band beneath full-length sashes set in arched brick recesses linked by stucco impost banding with individual and paired cast-iron balconies except no. 73 (Rococo style window-guards); elaborate Neoclassical style cast-iron paired balcony to no. 83. No. 67 partly rebuilt with altered c.1900 corner shopfront to ground-floor and upper floor window-heads altered. Significant rebuilding to upper floors. Plain brick parapet with stone coping. Attached cast-iron railings with urn finials; no. 83 with particularly fine railings and braces.

Listing NGR: TQ3113382959

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