Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NE ASHBY STREET 635-1/69/46 (South side) 29/09/72 Nos.11-18 (Consecutive) and attached railings

GV II

Terraced houses and shops. 1815-1818. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roofs obscured by parapet. Three storeys over basement except no. 12 which lacks a basement, two windows each. No. 12 has a ground-floor shop front with panelled dado, reeded pilasters, fascia, cornice and panelled doors of original design. No. 18 has a later shop front apparently superimposed on early C19 work with reeded pilasters. The basement and ground floor of nos 13-15 stuccoed and scored as ashlar. All openings have gauged brick heads where visible. Round-arched entrance; no. 11 has reeded pilasters, modillion cornice, fanlight with decorative glazing and panelled door of original design; nos 13-14 have simple replacement doorcases, fanlight and panelled doors of original design; nos 15-17 have reeded doorcases, fanlight (blocked to no 15) with decorative glazing to no. 16, and panelled doors of original design. No. 18 has reeded quarter-columns flanking reeded doorcase, fanlight now blocked and panelled door of original design. Ground-floor windows flat-arched except for no. 16 which is cambered. Stucco sill band to first floor; upper windows flat-arched. Cast-iron balconies to first floor of no. 11. 6/6 sashes of original design to nos 11 (first and second floors), 12 (first and second floors) and 16 (ground and first floors). Parapet; stacks to party walls. Area railings with urn and spearhead finials to nos 11 and 17, spike finials to nos 13-16. (Mary Cosh: The Squares of Islington. Part I. Finsbury and Clerkenwell: London: 1990-: P.65.).

Listing NGR: TQ3179982664

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