Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NW GIBSON SQUARE 635-1/58/412 (West side) 29/09/72 Nos.14-35 (Consecutive) and attached railings

GV II

Terraced houses. c.1828-30. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roofs of Welsh and artificial slate so far as visible. Three and four storeys, two windows each except nos 15 and 34 which have one window each. The terrace forms a symmetrical group with a centrepiece at nos 23-26, breaking forward, and endpieces at nos 14-16 and 33-35, also breaking forward; these endpieces have three pairs of giant pilasters with entablature, and a pediment to the middle house. Basement and ground floor stuccoed, the ground floor decorated with banded rustication. Steps up to round-arched entrance with three-quarter Greek Doric columns to nos 15-22, and 33, panelled pilaster jambs to nos 23-32 and pilasters jambs set in a recessed panel of smooth stucco to no 34; cornice, fanlight, with decorative glazing to nos 15-22, 26, 28 and 34, panelled doors. No 35 has a flat-arched entrance with pilaster-jambs framed by pilasters and entablature. Ground-floor windows round-arched with radiating glazing bars and some margin lights. First-floor windows flat-arched to nos 14-22 and 27-35, with stucco architraves and cornices (except to nos 15 and 34) and iron balconies; those to nos 23-26 are round-arched with gauged brick heads and iron balconies; second-floor windows flat-arched with stucco architraves except those to nos 15 and 34. Pilasters, cornice and pediment to nos 14 and 16 and 33-35; cornice and dormers in mansard roof to nos 23-26; parapet to the rest; stacks on party walls. 6/6 sashes commonly throughout the group. Cast-iron railings to area with ball-and-disc and spear-and-tassel finials and the occasional overthrow.

Listing NGR: TQ3144283835

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