Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NW GREAT PERCY STREET 635-1/68/431 (South side) 04/12/69 Nos.28-54 (Even) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: GREAT PERCY STREET (South side) Nos.28-52 (Even))

GV II

Thirteen terraced houses. In sloping street approaching Percy Circus. c.1839-1841, altered. Probably by William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor for the New River Estate. Multi-coloured stock bricks with chamfered rusticated stucco ground-floor (except plain stucco to right-hand return wall of no. 28 in Cumberland Gardens; nos. 52-54 with banded stucco) and stucco dressings; party-wall brick stacks; Welsh-slate gabled (nos. 40-44 & 48-52) and mansard (nos. 28, 32-36, 54) roofs, others obscured. Side-hall entrance plan. Three storeys with basement, 2 windows each plus no. 28 with right-hand return wall of 2-window range to Cumberland Gardens and no. 54 left-hand return wall of 2-window range to Lloyd Street. Low steps rise to entrance in right bay (no. 28 with side entrance to return; no. 54 with altered stucco portico entrance): round-arched ground-floor openings including doorway set in recess with pilaster jambs and fluted 1/2 columns (no. 28 with attached, fluted Doric columns; no. 52 with reeded door surround) carrying corniced-head, 6-panelled door (nos. 28-40 & 44-48 original; others C20) and fanlight (no. 48 finely patterned) 6/6 sashes to ground (nos. 28, 32, 36, 38 with margin lights), 1st and 2nd floors. 1st floor stucco sill band to gauged-brick flat arched full-length sashes set in arched recess linked by stucco impost bands; coupled cast-iron balconies with iron brackets and anthemion and Vitruvian scroll (no. 48 Gothic) pattern to railings. Gauged-brick flat arches to 2nd and 3rd floor sashes. Extensive rebuilding and patching-in to upper floors. Altered and cut-back stucco cornice (nos. 38 & 54 stucco removed) and blocking course. Attached cast-iron railings with pine-cone and torch finials.

Listing NGR: TQ3102282858

External Links

• Wikidata Q27084011

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)