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Latitude: 51.5385 / 51°32'18"N
Longitude: -0.1126 / 0°6'45"W
OS Eastings: 530993
OS Northings: 183870
OS Grid: TQ309838
Mapcode National: GBR L2.WN
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.0LBF
Plus Code: 9C3XGVQP+CX
Entry Name: Numbers 58 and 60 and Attached Railings and Garden Gate
Listing Date: 29 September 1972
Last Amended: 30 September 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1297996
English Heritage Legacy ID: 369225
ID on this website: 101297996
Location: King's Cross, Islington, London, N1
County: London
District: Islington
Electoral Ward/Division: Barnsbury
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Islington
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Andrew Barnsbury
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
ISLINGTON
TQ3083NE RICHMOND AVENUE
635-1/57/705 (South side)
29/09/72 Nos.58 AND 60
and attached railings and garden
gate
(Formerly Listed as:
RICHMOND AVENUE, Barnsbury
(South side)
Nos.58-60 (Even))
GV II
Semi-detached villa. c.1841. Yellow stock bricks set in
Flemish bond with stucco ground floor and dressings; hipped
roof with projecting eaves and centre brick stacks. Side-hall
entrance plan with staircase. Greco-Egyptian style and detail.
Three storeys with basement; 2 windows
each plus recessed link. Ground-floor bays articulated by
stylised rounded pilasters with paterae to tops; horizontal
row of paterae extends between pilasters above entrance and
sash. Steps rise to deeply recessed entrance porch to outer
bays with flanking stone sphinxes and obelisks on stucco
balustrade (obelisks missing from no. 60); doorways with
pilaster jambs carrying corniced-head, original 4-panelled
studded door and rectangular overlight. 6/6 sashes throughout:
ground-floor sashes with margin lights. Recessed stucco panels
below ground-floor sashes; upper floors with stylised
architraves decorated with paterae. 1st floor with moulded
stucco storey band and cast-iron Neoclassical style window
guards with palmette motif. No. 58 with coupled brackets to
eaves. Linked garden gate to no. 60 in same style but with
iron guards removed; attached cast-iron area railings.
In 1925 Arnold Bennett wrote in his diary after taking a trip
to explore Barnsbury...'The sphinxes and little Cleopatra
needles in front of the porticoes of a long row of houses in
Richmond Road [sic] are too marvellous.'
Listing NGR: TQ3099383869
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