Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NW AMWELL STREET
635-1/68/35 (East side)
29/09/72 Nos.44-66 (Even)
and railings attached to nos. 54-64

GV II

Twelve terraced houses. 1828-1829; C19 shopfronts (altered
C20) to nos. 44-52 and 66. By William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor
for the New River Estate. Yellow stock brick set in Flemish
bond with banded stucco ground-floor to nos. 54-64, wooden
shopfronts to others and stucco dressings; roofs obscured,
party-wall brick stacks. Ground-floor shop and side-hall
entrance plan leading to upper floors to nos. 44-52 and 66.
Side-hall entrance plan to others. Three storeys with
basement; 2 windows each with 2 windows to right (no. 44) and
left (no. 66) hand return walls to Inglebert and River
Streets. Low steps rise to round-arched entrance to nos. 44 &
54-66 (nos. 44 & 66 with side entrance in return wall):
architraved doorway with console brackets to panelled pilaster
jambs carrying corniced-head, fanlight (nos. 54 & 58-64
patterned) and original panelled door to nos. 44, 56, 60, 64,
66. 6/6 round-arched architraved sashes to nos. 54-64
ground-floor. Nos. 44-52 & 66 shopfront: those of nos. 50 and
52 are 3 bays wide and in most original condition, and
essentially identical, with house door to outer bay, shop door
to middle bay and bay window to inner bay; pilasters carry
curved fascia and cornice. Other shopfronts extensively
altered C20 although no. 66 with original fascia, cornice and
panelled doors. Gauged-brick flat arches with predominantly
6/6 sashes to upper floors; 1st floor stucco sill band beneath
full-length sashes set in arched brick recesses linked by
stucco impost band with individual cast-iron balconies to nos.
54-64 with Vitruvian scroll and anthemion pattern to railings.
Some rebuilding to upper floors. Plain brick parapet with
brick string course and stone coping. Attached cast-iron
railings with urn finials to nos. 54-64.

Listing NGR: TQ3119082864

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27083726

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