Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3082NW WHARTON STREET 635-1/67/897 (South side) 29/09/72 Nos.26-39 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WHARTON STREET (South side) Nos.26-30 (Consecutive)) (Formerly Listed as: WHARTON STREET Nos.31 & 32) (Formerly Listed as: WHARTON STREET Nos.33-47 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of 14 semi-detached linked villas. On slope of hill. Street laid out in 1832 by John Booth, and his son, also John, Surveyors for the Lloyd Baker Estate. Gold stock bricks set in Flemish bond with stucco dressings, and stucco pediment over each pair; Welsh (nos. 26, 29, 32, 35, 36) and artificial slate gabled roofs, others obscured by parapet; centre brick or stucco rendered stacks. Restrained Greek Revival style. Side-hall entrance plan to outer linked bay of each house. Two-storeys with basements; 2 windows each including recessed 1-window (no. 34 original 4/4 sash with margin lights) entrance bay coupled as link. Nos. 35 and 36 irregular with extended link to accommodate carriage-way between entrances and with extra window above. Low steps rise to deeply recessed (several altered and brought forward) stucco entrance with antae supporting entablature surmounted by C20 reproduction iron balcony railings. Architraved doorway with pair of 3-panelled doors (nos. 26-29, 31-35 original). Architraved sashes throughout: ground-floor with predominantly 6/6 (with margin lights) and 1st floor with 6/6 (often with margin lights) and 8/8 sashes; 1st floor recessed balconied links with narrower doors or sashes. Plain stucco band beneath pediments; stucco parapet with stone coping or blocking course to 1st floor recessed link. Attached iron railings. (Historians File, English Heritage, London Division: 1990-; The Squares of Islington: Cosh, Mary: The Squares of Islington Part I: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: Islington: 1990-: 57-58).

Listing NGR: TQ3098682730

External Links

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