Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3184SE TERRETT'S PLACE
635-1/53/837 (West side)
29/09/72 No.3
(Formerly Listed as:
UPPER STREET
No.3 (TERRETT'S PLACE))

II*

Single house, now terraced. The front of the house of 1720,
the back of 1750. Brown brick set in Flemish bond with red
brick dressings, timber-framing to north-east corner, roof of
tiles. In plan, the house has broadly one room to the front,
of 1720 and one to the back of 1750, and the staircase in the
middle. Three storeys, one-window range, with later buildings
blocking the right-hand half of the street facade. Flat-arched
entrance with moulded wooden doorcase, panelled door and
overlight; a bracketed canopy with modillion cornice breaks
back between the brackets and continues over the window, a 6/6
sash in a flush frame. Segmental-arched window with gauged red
brick head to first floor, with flush frame and 6/6 sash; on
the second floor a segmental-arched window under a gauged
brick head, probably of late C19 or early C20 date; this part
of the front rebuilt; red brick dressings to quoins at
first-floor level; parapet.
The rear elevation has a pair of sash windows to the ground
floor divided by a broad mullion and having thick glazing
bars, possibly reused in 1750; above these, a two-storey
canted weatherboarded oriel having dentil and modillion
cornices to both floors and replacement sashes; single-storey
C20 addition to right.
INTERIOR: . Entrance hall with dado rail, side passage to rear
with panelled dado. Ground-floor front room has
plank-and-muntin panelling which forms a partition to
staircase passage; timber framing visible in the north-east
corner of this room extends the full height of the house.
Well probably of pre-C18 date in staircase passage.
Ground-floor back room has unmoulded panelling, moulded
plaster cornice, fireplace surround with beaded ornament and
separate mantelshelf. The staircase, built round a conduit,
has moulded risers; C18 turned newel and balusters removed for
repair. First-floor principal front room has moulded
panelling, moulded plaster cornice, and fireplace surround of
C18 date with grooved ornament and a keystone of ogee profile.
The smaller first-floor front room has panelling awaiting
re-erection at time of inspection. The first-floor back room
has a moulded dado rail, elaborate plaster dentil and
modillion cornice, and a fine rococo chimneypiece of c.1750
with foliage consoles, scrolling foliage surrounding a bird on
the lintel, and eared and shouldered overmantel frame
presently removed for repair; original shutters to bay window.
On the second floor a casement, presumably of pre-C18 date, is
now blocked up in the present bathroom; there is plain
panelling throughout, the two back rooms partitioned by
panelling, that to the south having a moulded plaster cornice,
that to the north an original fireplace surround and
mantelshelf.
(Andrew Byrne: London's Georgian Houses: London: 1986-).

Listing NGR: TQ3165284049

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552114

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)