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Latitude: 51.5286 / 51°31'42"N
Longitude: -0.1132 / 0°6'47"W
OS Eastings: 530980
OS Northings: 182761
OS Grid: TQ309827
Mapcode National: GBR L6.R6
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.0V02
Plus Code: 9C3XGVHP+CP
Entry Name: Number 25 and Attached Railings Numbers 1 to 4 (Consecutive) and Attached Railings
Listing Date: 29 September 1972
Last Amended: 30 September 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1208312
English Heritage Legacy ID: 369206
Also known as: 1-4 Prideaux Place and attached railings, including 25 Wharton Street and attached railings
ID on this website: 101208312
Location: Finsbury, Islington, London, WC1X
County: London
District: Islington
Electoral Ward/Division: Clerkenwell
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Islington
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Clerkenwell Holy Redeemer
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
ISLINGTON
TQ3082NE PRIDEAUX PLACE
635-1/67/689 (West side)
29/09/72 Nos.1-4 (Consecutive)
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
PRIDEAUX PLACE
(West side)
No.1)
GV II
Includes: No.25 & attached railings WHARTON STREET.
Two irregular linked villas. On slope of hill with no. 25
entrance facing Wharton Street and nos. 1-4 to the right-hand
return wall in Prideaux Place. Streets laid out in 1832 by
John Booth, and his son, also John, Surveyors for the Lloyd
Baker Estate. Gold stock bricks set in Flemish bond with
stucco dressings, vermiculated quoins and entablature; roofs
obscured by parapet; centre brick or stucco rendered stacks.
Restrained Greek Revival style. Side-hall entrance plan to
outer bay of house in Prideaux Place; projecting portico
entrance to no. 25 Wharton Street. Three-storeys with
basement; 2-window range to each house facing Prideaux Place
with additional 1-window return wall to Wharton Street. Houses
in Prideaux Place separated by vermiculated rusticated quoins.
Low steps rise to C20 rebuilt rough-stucco portico entrance in
Wharton Street with antae supporting entablature: doorway with
pair of original panelled doors and rectangular overlight.
Prideaux Place architrave entrance with double-panelled door
and rectangular overlight surmounted by vermiculated stucco
keystone flanked by scrolls. Architraved 6/6 sashes with
margin lights throughout except 8/8 sashes to Wharton Street
elevation. Stucco sill bands. Extensive patching-in to upper
storeys. Projecting stucco cornice with band beneath; stucco
parapet with stone coping or blocking course. Attached iron
railings.
(Historians File, English Heritage, London Division: 1990-;
The Squares of Islington: Cosh, Mary: The Squares of Islington
Part I: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: Islington: 1990-: 57-58).
Listing NGR: TQ3098082761
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