Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3184SE COMPTON TERRACE
635-1/53/336 (East side)
29/09/72 Nos.1-16 (Consecutive)
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
COMPTON TERRACE
Nos.1-10, 11, 12-18 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terraced houses. 1819-21. Developed by Henry Flower and Samuel
Kell. Brick, 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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26581174

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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