Description

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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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)