Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3185SE BAALBEC ROAD
635-1/38/50 (North side)
Nos.7-47 (Odd)
and attached gates

GV II

Terraced houses. Dated 1886 in roundels on alternate pairs
between nos 17 and 47, and 1887 on nos 9-11. Red brick set in
Flemish bond and terracotta, roofs variously of Welsh and
artificial slate and tiles; a few houses painted all over.
Three storeys over basement, two bays each. Except for no. 7,
the houses are designed as pairs with linked porches and
balconies, and a common central pedimented gable. Slightly
projecting porch with brick pilasters supporting a
four-centred arch of gauged brick with fluted keystone and
terracotta frieze of palmette ornament over; floor of coloured
geometrical encaustic tiles. Deeply recessed wooden doorcase
with sidelights and overlight, glazed and panelled doors, the
glazing filled with decorative leaded glass with painted
roundels on nos 13, 21, 27-33, 37-39 and 45. Bay windows with
five lights to ground and first floors, with chamfered and
moulded mullions, segmental-arched heads of gauged brick with
fluted keystones; the ground-floor in addition has a springing
band of scrolling foliage and leaded toplights in some
windows. A second band of scrolling foliage forms a sill band
to the first floor; egg-and-dart cornice to gutters and hipped
slate roof to the bay; central balcony between the bays with
iron balcony, reached by a segmental-arched French window with
gauged brick head and fluted keystone, altered to a window in
many cases; the second floor has three segmental-arched
windows, the inner windows to each house having an ogee-shaped
brick apron eccentrically 'split' between the pairs;
terracotta panels inscribed 'AD' and '1886' alternately; the
inner windows grouped under a central pedimented gable, the
outer windows to each house also paired under a smaller
pedimented gable. Stacks to projecting party walls. No 7 is an
unpaired house designed to the same pattern except that it has
four paired segmental-arched windows to the second floor under
a single broad pedimented gable. Original wrought-iron gates
to basements on nos 17 and 21.
INTERIOR: No 21 has an entrance and staircase hall floored
with multi-coloured geometrical encaustic tiles, elaborate
plaster cornice and consoles at division between entrance and
staircase areas. Dog-leg stair with turned newel and acorn
finial, open string, turned balusters and moulded rail through
all floors. Ground-floor front room with elaborate plaster
cornice and ceiling rose; ornate cast-iron fireplace
influenced by the Aesthetic Movement with fluted pilasters and
panels of female figures and foliage moulded in relief;
transfer-printed tiles in the cheeks of the grate.
Ground-floor back room with elaborate plaster cornice and
ceiling rose possibly original in part; fireplace of marbled
slate with gilded and incised geometrical ornament, and
moulded multi-coloured tiles in the cheeks of the grate.
First-floor front room has plaster cornice and ceiling rose.
Other interiors not inspected.
Nos 7-47 Baalbec Road are a well-preserved example of
late-Victorian middle-class terraced housing, with street
fronts rather more ornate and considered than usual.

Listing NGR: TQ3187985190

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585635

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