Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NW WILMINGTON SQUARE
635-1/68/907 (North West side)
29/09/72 Nos.38-39 (Consecutive)
and attached railings

GV II

Two terraced houses. 1819-1841; much rebuilt by Islington
Council 1969. By John Wilson, builder for Lord Compton and the
Spa Fields Estate. Yellow stock brick laid in Flemish bond
with banded stucco ground-floor and stucco dressings; roofs
obscured by parapet, stacks not visible. Originally probably
side-hall entrance plan; now centre-hall entrance plan. Three
storeys with basement; 5 windows each plus 1 window (blind) to
left-hand return wall in Attneave Street. Symmetrical and
double-fronted. Steps rise to entrance: round-arched doorway
set in narrow stucco recess with fluted 1/4 column jambs
carrying corniced-head, patterned fanlight, and C20 panelled
door. Ground-floor round-arched sashes with 6/6 curved and
radial glazing bars with raised basement sashes in lieu of
panel below. Gauged-brick flat arches to upper storeys except
1st floor sashes. 1st floor stucco sill band beneath
full-length 6/6 sashes with individual cast-iron balconies
with anthemion and Vitruvian scroll pattern to railings. 2nd
floor 3/3 sashes. Projecting stucco cornice and blocking
course; plain brick parapet with stone coping to left return.
Attached cast-iron railings with floral tops and pineapple
finials. Wilmington Square was created from the Earls of
Northampton's Spa Fields Estate, which in 1817 the 9th Earl
asigned to his heir Lord Compton. The subsequent building in
Wilmington Square was one of London's 1st post-Waterloo
developments. Progress was piecemeal: the south terrace was
the 1st and grandest; nos. 38-39 not completed until 1841. For
financial reasons the square was reduced in depth and thus
became a backwater on the fringes of estates.
(The Squares of Islington: Cosh, M: The Squares of Islington
Part I: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: Islington: 1990-: 93-98).

Listing NGR: TQ3111482546

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27084148

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