Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183SE BURGH STREET
635-1/65/112 (North West side)
Nos.21-36 (Consecutive)
and attached railings

GV II

Terraced houses. Dated on the stepped parapet to no. 29, 'CMP
1847'. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roofs
obscured by parapet. Two and three storeys over basement, two
windows each. The terrace reads as a symmetrical group
unfinished to the south-west, with no 29 as the centrepiece.
No 29 is an exception in the terrace with segmental-arched
entrance with Roman Doric columns supporting cornice,
fanlight, and panelled door of original design; round-arched
ground-floor window with original glazing and margin lights;
upper windows flat-arched with moulded stucco architraves and
cornice on consoles to first floor; stepped parapet, the
central block flanked by scrolled consoles and carrying
inscription. The general features of the terrace are: basement
and ground floor stuccoed, the ground floor decorated with
chamfered rustication except no 35 which has smooth stucco and
no 36 which is entirely rendered in stucco scored as ashlar.
Steps up to flat-arched entrance with fluted quarter-columns,
cornice and overlight, panelled doors of original design to
nos 21, 23, 25, 27, 30-34. Ground-floor windows flat-arched
with vermiculated keystones, and window guards to nos 24,
28-29; the ground-floor window of no 35 has triple sashes.
Stucco terminates with sill band to first-floor windows which
are round-arched with gauged brick heads, window guards to nos
23-24, 28-30 and 32. On nos 24-34 the street front rises to a
third storey with flat-arched windows having gauged brick
heads. Sashes of original design,including radiating glazing
bars to first floor, to nos 21-22, 23 (ground floor), 24, 25
(ground and first floor), 26, 27 (ground floor), 30-34 (ground
floor). Stucco cornice and blocking course to nos 23-36,
parapet only on nos 21-22. No 23 has mansard roof with two
dormers, no 35 has roof extension. Cast-iron railings to steps
and area.

Listing NGR: TQ3197283367

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585647

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)