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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27080283

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)