Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NW LIVERPOOL ROAD 635-1/58/552 (West side) 29/09/72 Nos.143-199 (Odd) and attached railings

GV II

Terraced houses. 1821-1824. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roofs osbcured by parapet. Three storeys over basement, two windows each. The terrace is symmetrical with nos 167-77 set slightly forward, and a panelled parapet above nos 171-3 inscribed 'CLOUDESLEY TERRACE' between wreaths. The common design is: basement stuccoed; all openings above the basement with heads of gauged yellow brick; round-arched entrance with fluted quarter-columns, fanlight and, in some cases, panelled door of original design; ground-floor window round-arched; stucco storey band; upper windows flat-arched, those to the first floor of piano nobile proportions with balconies having cast-iron railings, and each window set back under a round arch of gauged red brick, the arches linked by a stucco springing band; parapet, much rebuilt; stacks to party walls. Features of individual houses are: no 142 has round-arched entrance in three-storey bay set back to left-hand return, the entrance with mutule cornice, and upper windows blank; no 149 has replacement quarter-columns; nos 151-3, 159-61, 175-83, 187-9 and 193-7 have decorative glazing to fanlight; no 195 has ground-floor sashes of original design; no 199 has round-arched entrance in three-storey bay set back to right-hand return, the entrance with decorative glazing to fanlight, upper windows blank. Some original cast-iron railings among many replacement designs.

Listing NGR: TQ3136883833

External Links

• Wikidata Q26568802

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House