Numbers 2, 4 And 4A And Garden Wall Attached To 4A

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TQ3184SE ALWYNE VILLAS 635-1/53/21 (East side) 20/09/54 Nos.2, 4 AND 4A and garden wall attached to 4A (Formerly Listed as: ALWYNE VILLAS C16 garden house & old wall to No 4)

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Pair of semi-detached houses. c.1850, and developed, and probably designed, by James Wagstaffe; with former garden house to Old Canonbury House, late C16, the upper part rebuilt. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco and roof of slate on the main block, red brick set in English bond to basement and ground floor of former garden house, yellow brick with red brick dressings to upper part of garden house. Three storeys over basement, the principal front of each house two bays wide with entrance wing set back to the side. Basement stuccoed and scored as ashlar. Stucco band between basement and ground floor. Ground- and first-floor windows flat-arched with gauged brick heads and original sashes, brick band between floors. Stucco band below enclosed eaves. Attic storey has round-arched window to each house, the pair grouped in the centre between brick pilaster strips with cornice and blocking course. Steps up to side entrance flanked on no 4 by pilasters with entablature, cornice and former blocking course, panelled door and overlight; panelled door and overlight only on no 2, which has a mansard roof to entrance wing. The entrance wing of no 4 is of two storeys with flat-arched window with original sash above entrance. Attached to entrance wing of no 4 is no 4A, the former garden house, three storeys over basement, octagonal in plan. The ground floor brickwork appears to be original apart from the window heads, that above is later. Entrance under cambered arch in stuccoed basement; ground-floor west and north-west windows have sashes with moulded frames set slightly back from the wall and gauged brick heads decoratively composed in red and yellow brick. Cusped stone panel with rebus of Prior Bolton rest below sill of west window. North window has recessed sashes. Brick band between floors. First-floor walls blank, with lozenge patterns and quoins in red brick against the yellow on the west, north-west and north sides. Second-floor west and north-west windows are recessed sashes with decorative gauged brick heads as below, and there is one flat-arched sash-window on the south-east face. Brick band below dentil cornice of projecting bricks, octagonal pitched roof. Stack on north-east face. Stretch of old garden wall running from no 4A towards no 6. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3197984382