Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3083NE RICHMOND AVENUE
635-1/57/702 (South side)
29/09/72 Nos.46 AND 48
and attached railings and garden
gates
(Formerly Listed as:
RICHMOND AVENUE
(South side)
Nos.46-60 (Even))

GV II

Semi-detached villas. c.1841. Yellow stock bricks set in
Flemish bond with recessed link, stucco ground floor and
dressings; hipped roof with projecting eaves and centre brick
stacks. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase. Greco-Egyptian
style and detail. Three storeys with basement; 2 windows each.
Ground-floor bays articulated by stylised rounded pilasters
with paterae to tops; horizontal row of paterae extends
between pilasters above entrance and sash. Steps rise to
deeply recessed entrance porch to outer bay with flanking
stone sphinxes and obelisks on stucco balustrade (obelisks
missing from no. 46 and from left side balustrade no. 48;
sphinx missing from left side no. 48); doorway with pilaster
jambs carrying corniced-head, original 4-panelled studded door
to no. 46 (no. 48 with C20 door) and rectangular overlight.
6/6 sashes throughout: ground-floor sashes with margin lights
and recessed stucco panel below; upper floor with stylised
architraves decorated with paterae. 1st floor with moulded
stucco storey band and cast-iron Neoclassical style window
guards with palmette motif. Attached linked garden-gates in
same style, with attached iron guards above; attached
cast-iron area railings.
In 1925 Arnold Bennett wrote in his diary after taking a trip
to explore Barnsbury...'The sphinxes and little Cleopatra
needles in front of the porticoes of a long row of houses in
Richmond Road [sic] are too marvellous.'
(Cosh, M.: An historical walk through BARNSBURY: Islington:
1981-: P.17).

Listing NGR: TQ3093583868

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26581139

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