Numbers 46 And 48 And Attached Railings And Garden Gates

ISLINGTON

TQ3083NE RICHMOND AVENUE 635-1/57/702 (South side) 29/09/72 Nos.46 AND 48 and attached railings and garden gates (Formerly Listed as: RICHMOND AVENUE (South side) Nos.46-60 (Even))

GV II

Semi-detached villas. c.1841. Yellow stock bricks set in Flemish bond with recessed link, stucco ground floor and dressings; hipped roof with projecting eaves and centre brick stacks. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase. Greco-Egyptian style and detail. Three storeys with basement; 2 windows each. Ground-floor bays articulated by stylised rounded pilasters with paterae to tops; horizontal row of paterae extends between pilasters above entrance and sash. Steps rise to deeply recessed entrance porch to outer bay with flanking stone sphinxes and obelisks on stucco balustrade (obelisks missing from no. 46 and from left side balustrade no. 48; sphinx missing from left side no. 48); doorway with pilaster jambs carrying corniced-head, original 4-panelled studded door to no. 46 (no. 48 with C20 door) and rectangular overlight. 6/6 sashes throughout: ground-floor sashes with margin lights and recessed stucco panel below; upper floor with stylised architraves decorated with paterae. 1st floor with moulded stucco storey band and cast-iron Neoclassical style window guards with palmette motif. Attached linked garden-gates in same style, with attached iron guards above; attached cast-iron area railings. In 1925 Arnold Bennett wrote in his diary after taking a trip to explore Barnsbury...'The sphinxes and little Cleopatra needles in front of the porticoes of a long row of houses in Richmond Road [sic] are too marvellous.' (Cosh, M.: An historical walk through BARNSBURY: Islington: 1981-: P.17).

Listing NGR: TQ3093583868