Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NE COLEBROOKE ROW 635-1/59/324 (East side) 20/09/54 Nos.56 AND 57

GV II

Terraced houses. Early C18. Brown brick with red brick dressings, clay-tiled roof. Three storeys over basement, three windows each. Flat-arched entrance to each house in inner bay with simple architraves and coupled hoods on foliated scrolled brackets, panelled doors. Windows to ground and first floors segmental-arched with red brick dressings to heads and sides; 6/6 sashes, the sash boxes set almost flush with the wall. Parapet, dormers in mansard roof, one to no 56, two to no 57. Access to interior of no 56 not possible. INTERIOR: of no 57 has entrance hall with panelled dado to party wall with no 56 and unmoulded panelling to the opposite, partition wall, some of it altered; wooden cornice; the arrangement of panelled dado to one side and panelled partition to the other continues up the staircase as far as the first floor. The dog-leg stair has turned newels, turned balusters and a moulded rail from the basement upwards, the balusters in the last flight renewed. The downstairs room is fully panelled with moulded rails and muntins, and elaborate wooden cornice; presumably two rooms have been thrown into one, and there is a good deal of replacement panelling; the fireplace in the front part and the corner fireplace at the back have both been considerably renewed. The first-floor front room is fully panelled with moulded rails and muntins and wooden cornice; the mantelpiece with eared architrave and corniced shelf possibly introduced.

Listing NGR: TQ3179083562

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide