Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183SW PENTONVILLE ROAD 635-1/64/679 (South side) 29/09/72 Nos.25-75 (Odd) and attached railings

GV II

Also known as: Nos.43-44 CLAREMONT SQUARE. Terrace of 27 houses. On rise of hill forming return to no. 44 Claremont Square (q.v.). c.1820s. Probably for the New River Estate. Multi-coloured stock bricks set in Flemish bond, nos. 25-47 with banded stucco ground-floors; roofs obscured by parapet, brick party-wall stacks. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase. Four storeys with basement; 2 windows each. Steps rise to entrance (door to no. 31 changed to sash C20; no. 75 with 2 ground-floor sashes to Pentonville Road and centre entrance to double-fronted elevation on return in Claremont Square). Doorways have fluted 1/4 column jambs carrying modillioned corniced-heads, 6-panelled (nos. 35-45 & 55), 4-panelled (nos. 63-75) or elaborate 3-panelled (nos. 49-51 & 59) original door and original patterned (nos. 53 & 61-65) fanlight. Gauged-brick round-arched (nos. 25-47 set in stucco recess) ground-floor 2/2 (nos. 25-31) and 6/6 sashes (with intersecting Gothic style glazing bars and margin lights to nos. 33, 39, 41, 53; nos. 45 & 57 with curved & radial glazing bars); gauged-brick flat arches to upper floors. 1st floor with stucco sill band to 6/6 full-length sashes set in arched recesses (nos. 67-75 linked by stucco impost bands); coupled (except no. 41 with individual) iron-bracketed balconies with iron railings of Gothic or Vitruvian scroll and anthemion patterns (balconies missing from nos. 29 & 31). 2nd floor 6/6 sashes. 3rd floor 3/3 sashes (nos. 43-47 3/6 & nos. 61 & 67-75 6/6 sashes); no. 43 with iron window-guard to right sash. Parapet with brick string course (nos. 67-71 string course missing; nos. 73-75 with dentiled brick cornice) and stone coping. Extensive patching-in and rebuilding to upper front elevations. Attached iron area and garden railings with urn finials.

Listing NGR: TQ3128583105

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