Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NW AMWELL STREET 635-1/68/31 (West side) 29/09/72 Nos.27, 29 AND 31 and attached railings

GV II

Includes: No.24 LLOYD BAKER STREET. Four terraced houses. 1828-1829 by William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor for the New River Estate; C19 shopfronts; major alterations by Islington Council c.1990 including complete reworking of ground-floor elevations to nos. 27-29. Multi-coloured stock brick set in Flemish bond with banded stucco ground-floor to nos. 27-29, wooden and glazed-brick shopfronts to nos. 31 Amwell Street and no. 24 Lloyd Baker Street, and stucco dressings; roofs obscured, party-wall brick stacks. Side-hall entrance plan to nos. 27-29 and ground-floor shop with domestic upper floors to nos. 31 Amwell and 24 Lloyd Baker Streets. Three storeys with basement (no. 24 Lloyd Baker Street with 1 storey side-entrance extension); 2 windows each. Low steps rise to entrance of nos. 27-29 (no. 29 round-arched): all c.1990 details to ground-floor. Mid to late C19 shopfront to others: no. 31 with shop door to right and windows to left and 24 Lloyd Baker Street with corner shop entrance flanked by shop windows and house entrance to right-hand return wall; both shopfronts articulated by console-bracketed pilasters supporting fascia and cornice. Gauged-brick flat arches with 6/6 sashes to upper floors; 1st floor stucco sill band beneath full-length sashes set in arched brick recesses with continuous cast-iron bracketed balcony the length of nos. 27 & 29 with Gothic pattern to railings. Significant rebuilding to upper floors. All with plain brick parapet with stone coping (no. 29 irregular); stucco cornice and band to no. 24 Lloyd Baker Street. Attached cast-iron railings.

Listing NGR: TQ3117482785

External Links

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