Numbers 31 And 33 And Attached Railings

These are a pair of semi-detached villas, numbers 31 and 33, dating from approximately 1845. They are located in Islington, and were originally part of a larger development known as Belitha Villas. The houses are built of yellow and brown stock bricks laid in a Flemish bond pattern, with stucco dressings. They have a Welsh slate hipped roof with bracketed projecting eaves and central chimneys.

The design follows a side-hall entrance plan, incorporating a staircase. The houses are two storeys high, with a basement and attic, each featuring two windows, with a narrower, recessed one-window entrance bay. Full-height brick pilasters are used to articulate the inner bay. A projecting portico with Ionic columns is at the front with steps leading up to a doorway that has pilaster jambs, a corniced head, an original two-panelled door, and an overlight. The windows are sash windows, set within gauged brick flat arches. The ground-floor windows are 2/2 sashes with margin lights, set in elliptical-arched recesses connected by stucco impost bands. They retain original cast iron window guards with a palmette pattern. Stucco sill bands run along the upper storeys. First-floor windows are full-length sashes, and the attic windows are in the recessed entrance bay and the inner bay. Attached cast-iron railings are present.