Numbers 375-379 (Odd) And Attached Railings

ISLINGTON

TQ3183SE CITY ROAD 635-1/65/254 (North side) 29/09/72 Nos.375-379 (Odd) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: CITY ROAD Nos.375-379, 383-387 (Odd))

GV II

Terraced houses, formerly part of a terrace known as York Place. 1810-11. Possibly designed by James Taylor. Yellow and multi-coloured brick set in Flemish bond with stucco enrichments and mansard roofs of Welsh slate. Four storeys over basement, two windows each. Basement and ground floor of no 379 stuccoed, the ground floor decorated with banded rustication. Segmental-arched entrance to no 375 with engaged Roman Doric columns carrying cornice, fanlight; round-arched entrance to no. 377 with pilaster jambs, probably replacement, cornice and fanlight; no.379 has flat-arched entrance with replacement doorcase and overlight. Ground-floor windows round-arched, with gauged brick heads to nos 375-377; upper windows flat-arched with gauged brick heads, bracketed balcony with iron railings to first floor of no 379. Sashes of original design, with radiating glazing bars to ground floor, to nos 375 (second floor) and 377. Parapet; one dormer in the roof of each house. Truncated stacks to party walls. No 377 appears much rebuilt. Area railings of trellis and geometrical design to no 375. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3164683107