Numbers 25 To 75 (Odd) And Attached Railings

This is a terrace of twenty-seven houses, numbered 25 to 75 (odd) and with attached railings, built in the 1820s. They are situated on a rise, forming a return to number 44 Claremont Square. The houses were likely built for the New River Estate. They are constructed of multi-coloured stock bricks in a Flemish bond pattern, with the ground floors of numbers 25 to 47 finished with banded stucco. The roofs are hidden behind a parapet, and there are brick party-wall stacks.

The houses follow a side-hall entrance plan with a staircase. Each house is four storeys high, with a basement, and has two windows facing the front. A flight of steps leads to the entrance of the houses; the door at number 31 has been replaced with a sash window in the 20th century. Number 75 has two ground-floor sash windows facing Pentonville Road and a central entrance to a double-fronted elevation returning into Claremont Square. The doorways are characterized by fluted, quarter-column jambs supporting modillioned corniced heads. The original doors are six-panelled (numbers 35 to 45 and 55), four-panelled (numbers 63 to 75), or elaborate three-panelled (numbers 49 to 51 and 59), and there are original patterned fanlights over numbers 53 and 61 to 65. The ground-floor windows have gauged-brick round arches, set into a stucco recess for numbers 25 to 47. These windows are predominantly 2/2 sashes, with 6/6 sashes used at numbers 33, 39, 41, 53, 45, and 57 which incorporate intersecting Gothic-style glazing bars and margin lights, and curved and radial glazing bars respectively. Upper-floor windows have gauged-brick flat arches.

The first floor features stucco sill bands to the 6/6 full-length sashes, which are set into arched recesses, with numbers 67 to 75 linked by stucco impost bands. Coupled iron-bracketed balconies, with iron railings in Gothic or Vitruvian scroll and anthemion patterns, are present on the first floor (though missing from numbers 29 and 31). The second floor has 6/6 sashes. The third floor contains 3/3 sashes, with numbers 43 to 47 having 3/6 sashes and numbers 61 and 67 to 75 having 6/6 sashes. Number 43 incorporates an iron window-guard to the right-hand sash. The parapet has a brick string course (missing from numbers 67 to 71 and present with a dentiled brick cornice at numbers 73 to 75) and stone coping. Extensive patching-in and rebuilding has occurred to the upper front elevations. Attached iron area and garden railings have urn finials.