Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3284NE ST PAUL'S ROAD 635-1/48/820 (North side) 29/09/72 Nos.26-60 (Even) and attached railings

GV II

Terraced houses. c.1845. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roofs obscured by parapet. Three storeys above basement, two windows each except nos 26 and 50. Basement and ground floor stuccoed, the ground floor decorated with banded rustication. Steps up to round-arched entrance, thed doorcase recessed within a further round arach of smooth stucco. Ground-floor window round-arched and recessed in a round-arched panel of smooth stucco. First- and second-floor windows flat-arched with first-floor balconies on iron brackets. Parapet; stacks on party walls. No 26 has one bay to the street and its principal facade in St Paul's Place, apparently much renewed: round-arched central entrance up steps with pilaster jambs, panelled door and fanlight, flanked by round-arched windows, that to the right being blank. Upper windows flat-arched with balconies to first floor. Nos 28-34 have doorcases with pilaster jambs, panelled doors of original design to nos 28-34, decorative glazing to fanlights on nos 28 and 32, balconies with iron brackets and railings to nos 28-34, sashes of original design to second floor of no 28. No 36 has a simple moulded doorcase and cast-iron balcony. Nos 38-48 have doorcases with fluted quarter-columns, decorative glazing to fanlights on nos 40-48, panelled doors of original design, and balconies with cast-iron brackets and railings, sashes of original design to first floor of no 44 and second floor of no 46. Nos 5O-60 also have doorcases with fluted quarter-columns, decorative glazing to fanlights on nos 54-58, panelled doors of original design, and balconies on cast-iron brackets on nos 48-56; the upper storeys of nos 50-60 have been covered with stucco. No 50 has a broad tripartite window to first floor in place of usual two, and a tripartite window with segmental arch to second floor. Cast-iron railings to area of nos 26-60 with spear-and-tassel finials and panels of anthemion ornament; they are decayed in places but appear to be original throughout. (Eric Willatts: Streets with a story. The book of Islington: London: 1986-).

Listing NGR: TQ3258084860

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