Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3282SW HELMET ROW 635-1/75/442 (West side) 29/12/50 No.12 (Formerly Listed as: HELMET ROW St Luke's Rectory)

GV II

Formerly St Luke's Rectory, now offices. Dated 1774 in rainwater head to left side of Helmet Row front; later additions. Multicoloured brick to main building set in Flemish bond, with yellow brick set in Flemish bond to added south-west wing, stucco; roof of slate. Three storeys over basement, five-window range to Helmet Row, three-window range to Mitchell Street. Entrance in Mitchell Street with Ionic pilasters against a background of rustication supporting entablature with partly pulvinated and enriched frieze; plain inset frame to doorcase with overlight. All other openings to Mitchell Street have segmental arches with gauged brick heads and are blank. The Helmet Row front has a five-sided, single-storey bay added in yellow brick in place of the two left-hand openings on the ground floor, and a lower segmental-arched window next to it; other windows all segmental-arched with heads of gauged red brick, and 6/6 sashes of original design to the two right-hand windows of the ground floor and two left-hand windows on the first and second floors. Parapet; triple hipped roof. Three-storey wing to south-west with segmental-arched windows, probably of mid-C19 date. INTERIOR: : ground-floor north room on Helmet Row front is panelled with moulded cornice, mid-C19 marble fireplace with late C19 cast iron grate; the neighbouring south room panelled with moulded cornice and fireplace of uncertain date; ground-floor room in south-west wing has mid-C19, faintly Gothic architraves to windows and door. On the first floor the rooms to Helmet Row are panelled with cornices, that to north with eared fireplace surround; on the second floor, the rooms to Helmet Row have panelled dados and segmental-arched fireplace surrounds.

Listing NGR: TQ3227482432

External Links

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