Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3083NE RICHMOND AVENUE
635-1/57/704 (South side)
29/09/72 Nos.54 AND 56 (Even)
and attached railings and garden
gate
(Formerly Listed as:
RICHMOND AVENUE, Barnbury
(South side)
Nos.46-60 (Even))

GV II

Semi-detached villa. c.1841. Yellow stock bricks set in
Flemish bond with stucco ground floor and dressings; hipped
roof with coupled brackets to projecting eaves and centre
brick stacks. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase.
Greco-Egyptian style and detail. Three storeys with basement;
2 windows each plus recessed link. 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 bays with flanking stone sphinxes and
obelisks on stucco balustrade (sphinxes and obelisks missing
from no. 56); doorway with pilaster jambs carrying
corniced-head, original 4-panelled studded door (no. 56 with
C20 glazing to upper door panels) and rectangular overlight.
6/6 sashes to no. 54: ground-floor sashes with margin lights.
2/2 sashes to no. 56. Recessed stucco panels below
ground-floor sashes; upper floors with stylised architraves
decorated with paterae. 1st floor with moulded stucco storey
band and cast-iron Neoclassical style window guards with
palmette motif. Linked garden gate to no. 54 in same style but
with iron guards removed; attached cast-iron area railings to
no. 54.
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.'

Listing NGR: TQ3096883869

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26581142

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