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79-85, Essex Road

A Grade II Listed Building in Islington, London

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Latitude: 51.5381 / 51°32'17"N

Longitude: -0.1 / 0°6'0"W

OS Eastings: 531867

OS Northings: 183845

OS Grid: TQ318838

Mapcode National: GBR P2.PT

Mapcode Global: VHGQT.6LZR

Plus Code: 9C3XGVQX+6X

Entry Name: 79-85, Essex Road

Listing Date: 20 October 1989

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1292894

English Heritage Legacy ID: 368880

ID on this website: 101292894

Location: Islington, London, N1

County: London

District: Islington

Electoral Ward/Division: St Mary's

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Islington

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Mary Islington

Church of England Diocese: London

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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

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