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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503332

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