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TQ3184SE
635-1/53/336

ISLINGTON
COMPTON TERRACE (East side)
Nos.1-16 (Consecutive) and attached railings

(Formerly Listed as: COMPTON TERRACE Nos.1-10, 11, 12-18 (Consecutive))

29/09/72

GV
II

Terraced houses. 1819-21. Developed by Henry Flower and Samuel Kell. Brick with penny-struck lime mortar, stucco, roofs of slate. The original pattern for the terrace appears to have been: three storeys over basement, three bays wide, round-arched entrances with fluted quadrant pilasters to door frames, fanlights and panelled doors; all windows with flat arches of gauged brick, those to the first floor having a sill band and cast-iron balconies with quadrant corners; simple parapet. Cast-iron railings with spearhead and urn finials. Original glazing bars are common. There are dormers in a mansard roof to nos 1-5, 9 and 14-16, and there are the following individual variations: no 1 has three windows to the ground floor and a two-storey stuccoed entrance wing to the south; porch with Corinthian columns, and a return into Canonbury Lane which has banded rustication and four windows with cast- iron grilles to the ground floor; the third floor return of the main terrace here has three windows with flat arches of gauged brick set under round arches on pilaster strips with springing bands. No 3 has the responds and entablature of a stuccoed porch only remaining, no 5 has a corinthian porch with side balustrade, no 7 has a cast-iron porch of late-Cl9 date, and no 12 has banded rustication in stucco on the ground floor. There is a clear break in the brickwork between nos 4 and 5. Area railings with spearhead and urn finials; basement overthrows to nos 4, 5, 11 and 12.

(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division; Mary Cosh: Typescript of forthcoming book on the squares of north Islington).

Listing NGR: TQ3166284457

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