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Latitude: 51.5447 / 51°32'41"N
Longitude: -0.0996 / 0°5'58"W
OS Eastings: 531874
OS Northings: 184581
OS Grid: TQ318845
Mapcode National: GBR P0.SF
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.7F5N
Plus Code: 9C3XGWV2+V4
Entry Name: Numbers 24-26, 28, 30, 32-38 and Attached Railings
Listing Date: 29 September 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1293233
English Heritage Legacy ID: 368825
ID on this website: 101293233
Location: Canonbury, 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 Stephen Canonbury
Church of England Diocese: London
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ISLINGTON
TQ3184NE COMPTON ROAD
635-1/46/332 (West side)
29/09/72 Nos.24-26 ,28, 30, 32-38
and attached railings
GV II
Terraced houses. 1847-53. Developed by George Frasi and James
Beaumont. Brick, stucco and roofs of slate. Three storeys over
half-basement. The row forms a symmetrical group, the end and
central sections having second floor windows in a full attic
storey, the rest with round-arched dormers in a mansard roof.
The end sections (nos 24-5 and 38) are four bays wide with
side entrances, the central section (nos 31-2) is six bays
wide; the rest form two groups of four two-bay houses.
Half-basements and ground floors stuccoed, the ground floors
with banded rustication; Greek Doric porches, panelled doors
and fanlights; the first-floor windows are flat-arched
throughout, the end and central sections have architraves and
cornices on consoles, and cast iron balconies as on nos 31-59
Compton Road (q.v.), while the rest have architraves only and
window-guards of scrolling ironwork; cornice to the whole
terrace with bracketed stops between the mansard-roofed
houses; attic storeys have round-arched windows. Margin lights
generally to sashes on the first and second floors. Nos 30, 32
and 33 have cast-iron window-guards to ground-floor windows.
No 38 has a two-storey recessed entrance bay with panelled
door and fanlight between pilasters. Cast-iron railings to
steps and area.
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).
Listing NGR: TQ3187484581
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