Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183SE BURGH STREET 635-1/65/111 (South East side) Nos.1-20 (Consecutive) and attached railings

GV II

Terraced houses. c.1847. Yellow and brown brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roofs of Welsh and artificial slate where visible. Two and three storeys over basement, two windows each. Basement and ground floor stuccoed, the ground floor decorated with banded rustication. No 10 is an exception in the terrace, having flat-arched entrance with fluted quarter-columns, moulded cornice and overlight; ground-floor window flat-arched; sill band to first-floor windows, which are flat-arched with gauged brick heads set in a recessed round-arched panel also with gauged brick heads and springing bands; balconies with window guards; sill band to second-floor windows which are round-arched with gauged brick heads; sashes of C19 design to all windows; parapet rebuilt. Otherwise the terrace has: round-arched entrance with pilaster jambs, cornice, fanlight and panelled doors of original design to nos 1-9, 12, 15, 18-20. Ground-floor windows round-arched. First-floor sill band terminates stucco. Upper windows flat-arched, with gauged brick heads except on nos 18 and 19; at nos 5-9 and 11-16 the main front rises to a third storey with flat-arched windows with gauged brick heads; nos 1-4 have mansard roofs with dormers, nos 17-20 no third storey. Sashes of original design, including radiating glazing bars to ground floor, to nos 1 (ground floor), 2, 3 (ground floor), 5-11, 12 (ground and first floors), 13, 14 (ground floor), 15 (ground floor), 16 (ground floor), and 17-20. Cornice, now much reworked and lacking to no 8, parapet; stacks to party walls. Cast-iron railings to steps and area.

Listing NGR: TQ3200483347

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