Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183SE CITY ROAD 635-1/65/256 (South side) 29/09/72 Nos.396 AND 398 (Even) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: CITY ROAD Nos.340-392, 396 (Even)) (Formerly Listed as: CITY ROAD No.398 Dalby House)

GV II

These two buildings have been obscured by scaffolding etc during the whole period of inspection. The following description of no 396 can be inferred from the 1972 list, when it was described in the same entry as nos 340-392 (q.v.): Terraced house. Early C19 with mid-C19 enrichments. Yellow brick, stucco dressings. Four storeys over basement, two-window range. Round-arched entrance with vermiculated keystone and decorative glazing to fanlight; all windows flat-arched with stucco architraves, that to ground floor with vermiculated keystone; bracketed pediments and continuous cast-iron balcony to first-floor windows. Stucco modillion cornice and balustraded parapet. Cast-iron railings to area. The following description of no 398 can be inferred from the 1972 list: Terraced house. Early C19 with mid-C19 enrichments. Multi-coloured brick, stucco to ground floor. Three storeys with dormers in attic, three-window range and double fronted to the principal, western facade, two windows to the return in City Road. Ground floor rusticated. Steps up to entrance with balustraded parapet, the entrance round-arched with engaged Doric columns, cornice, fanlight and side lights. The entrance is flanked by full-height segmental bays with mullions as pilasters carrying entablature; the whole front is painted; all windows with architraves, the central first-floor window with bracketed pediment, those to the bays on this floor having segmental pediments with enriched tympana; bracketed cornice, balustraded parapet with ball finials. On the City Road return, a plaque inscribed 'DALBY TERRACE'.

Listing NGR: TQ3159683069

External Links

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