John Wesley'S House And Attached Railings

ISLINGTON

TQ3282SE CITY ROAD 635-1/76/248 (East side) 29/12/50 No.47 John Wesley's House and attached railings

GV I

Terraced house. The residence of John Wesley 1779-1791 (LCC plaque between ground floor windows), and now the Wesley Museum. 1779, with extensive reconstruction in the 1890s, when the building became a museum. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond with dressings of stucco, stone and Coade stone, and roof of slate. Four storeys over basement, three-window range. Flat-arched entrance to left with stone architrave and cornice; the doorcase has a fluted frieze and overlight with fan-shaped decorative glazing; panelled doors of original design. All windows flat-arched with 6/6 sashes of original design to all but third floor. Frieze of Vitruvian scrolls in Coade stone forming a storey band above the ground floor; parapet. Four-window range to the left-hand return, all blank. Area railings with pinched spike finials. INTERIOR: : entrance hall with panelled dado and cornice; staircase with panelled dado, plain newel posts, stick balusters and exposed string. The front and back rooms on the ground, first and second floors all have original architraves to doors, panelled dadoes, panelled window shutters, cornices, and wooden fireplaces of modest Classical design; in addition there are fitted cupboards flanking the fireplace in the back rooms and the second-floor front room, and fine cast-iron grates in the first- and second-floor front rooms and the second-floor back room; more elaborate cornice in first-floor front room; closet for private prayer on the first floor, with panelled dado, cornice, fitted cupboard and fireplace with cast-iron grate of Classical design. (Information from Philip Temple, Survey of London).

Listing NGR: TQ3281082254