Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NE ESSEX ROAD
635-1/59/380 (West side)
20/10/89 Nos.79-85 (Odd)

II

Terrace of four houses, now shops and offices. Late C17,
refronted late C18 and extended C20. Red-brown brick to the
gable end walls, some stock brick, the remainder rendered or
painted. Four bays of original hipped tile roofs, mostly
pitched tile roofs elsewhere, some slate. Two storeys over
basement with dormers in attic; ground-floor front extension.
First floor has rendered facade, and quoins at angles and
between groups of windows. Rendered band with dropped
keystones over windows. Windows grouped 5:5:1, mostly sashes,
some blocked. Five flat-roofed full dormers, with casements of
mixed glazing frame and are behind parapet. Gable parapets.
Left-hand internal gable stack. Central stack forward of
ridge. Ridge stack to right. Left-hand return: lower wall in
exposed red-brown brick, rendered above. Stock brick and
rendered slate-roofed extension to rear, with slate-hung
upper-storey room resting on it. Tall stack. Four bays of
hipped roofs with moulded timber eaves to side. Varied windows
at full and mid-storey levels to rear, some flush-set,
small-paned sashes, with glazing bars. Round-arched
small-paned sash to stairwell. INTERIOR: : original rooms
largely intact above ground floor: on the left hand, dog-leg
staircase of three flights with moulded tread ends, simple
ramped mahogany rail with pronounced curtail, continuing above
as late C17 closed string staircase with twisted balusters, at
upper landing alternating with turned balusters; plain square
newels with half-balusters set into moulded caps, moulded
rail.
First-floor front room, now of five windows bays, formerly two
rooms; that to left retaining most of moulded cornice of early
phase of building. Doors of six recessed panels. To rear, at
half-landing level, under slate roof, room with barrel-vaulted
ceiling, moulded dado rail and skirting, door of six recessed
panels, recessed panelled reveals to two rear-facing sashes.
Classical fireplace, with cast-iron grate flanked by cupboards
with six-panel doors. Rear room partly divided off as passage,
with plain panelled dado and moulded middle rail suggesting
full-height panelling may survive behind upper boarding. Attic
floor, mostly boarded over but panelling may survive beneath
it. Simple fireplace. Coupled rafter roof with collars where
visible.
Central staircase: late C17 closed-string dog-leg staircase
rising intact from basement to attic; square newels with
recessed panels; turned balusters, heavy moulded rail; dado
panelling to stairwell, some matchboard panelling. First-floor
front room of two bays: complete late C17 panelling, mostly
plain but with raised moulded panel to overmantel; simple door
architrave blocked. Right-hand staircase has stick balusters
at base, turned balusters to upper storey. Plain panelled
walls and stairwell. First-floor front room retains some
moulded dado rail.
Very rare survival of late C17 houses in Islington Green area,
where most were redeveloped in late C18.

Listing NGR: TQ3186783845

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580870

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)