Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3084SE THORNHILL SQUARE
635-1/51/853 (West side)
29/09/72 Nos.33-63 (Consecutive)
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
THORNHILL SQUARE
(West side)
Nos.33-44 (Consecutive))
(Formerly Listed as:
THORNHILL SQUARE
(West side)
No.45)
(Formerly Listed as:
THORNHILL SQUARE
(West side)
Nos.46-63 (Consecutive))

GV II

31 terraced houses. c.1836-1842. Flemish bond. Brown and
yellow stock brick; stucco basement, ground floors and
cornices. Most with pitched slated roofs and party-wall
stacks. Symmetrical curved terrace. Sidehall entrance with
staircase. 3 storeys, basements and some with attics and
dormers, two windows each. Banded stucco ground floors with
segmental arched sash windows, some with margin lights. To
left, low steps rise to square-headed doorway; each with
panelled door flanked by plain glazing bars beneath rosette
frieze and console-bracketed cornice. No. 33 is 3 windows wide
with side entrance with stucco portico to left return wall.
Upper floors of brick with plain sill band beneath first floor
full-length sash windows. 1st floor with blocks of 3 houses
with one pedimented 3-light sash (with central window of each
block with segmental pediment) alternating with recessed
blocks of 4 or 6 houses with 2 architraved windows each. 1st
floor 3-light windows with cast-iron balconies, remainder with
cast-iron window guards. 2nd floors with single 3-light
architraved sash windows divided by pilasters and with apron
panels. Stucco cornices, some with blocking courses. Attached
iron railings. Nos. 64 and 65 were demolished c.1906 in order
to make way for B.Pite's West Islington Library.

Listing NGR: TQ3074784062

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504673

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)