Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182SE BRITTON STREET
635-1/74/100 (North East side)
29/09/72 No.59
and attached railings

GV II

Terraced house. Early C18. Multicoloured brick with red brick
dressings, roof of Welsh slate. Four storeys over basement,
three-window range. Basement rendered. Flat-arched entrance in
right-hand bay with fluted pilasters, elaborately carved
brackets, panelled frieze and flat hood with panelled soffit,
cornice and overlight. Ground- and first-floor windows have
flat arches of gauged red brick and red brick dressings to
sides; frames set almost flush with the wall (those to first
floor replacement) and 6/6 sashes of original design to ground
floor. Brick storey band. Second-floor windows have flat
arches with replacement heads, red brick dressings to sides,
replacement frames set almost flush with the wall, and 6/6
sashes of original design. Rebuilt parapet. Two dormers in
mansard roof. Area railings with urn and palmette finials.
INTERIOR: Entrance hall panelled with plaster cornice and
fluted pilasters leading to staircase hall; staircase with
open string from ground floor, turned newels, column-on-vase
balusters as far as third floor, turned balusters above, and
panelling much altered. Ground-floor front and back rooms
thrown into one; panelling and plaster cornice survive to
north wall, altered; corner fireplace to back room with late
C18 or early C19 cast-iron grate; closet with panelling,
plaster cornice and corner fireplace with late C18 or early
C19 cast-iron grate. On the second floor the panelling and
plaster cornice remain to front and back rooms with C19
alterations; front room has late C18 or early C19 cast-iron
grate; back room has corner fireplace, and panelled closet.

Listing NGR: TQ3162082042

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27080288

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide