45-63, Hemingford Road

This is a terrace of semi-detached villas, likely built in the 1840s, located on Hemingford Road in Islington. The buildings are constructed of stock bricks laid in a Flemish bond pattern, with stucco dressings. The roofs are a combination of flat and gabled sections, covered with artificial and Welsh slate, and feature party-wall stacks.

The architectural plan follows a side-hall entrance with a staircase. Each villa originally had two storeys, a basement, and an attic, with three windows facing the street. The windows above the entrance are narrower. Steps lead up to a linked entrance bay recessed within the terrace, featuring a projecting stucco porch with a central square column, a continuous entablature, and a flat roof. The entrance doorway originally had a four-panelled door (replaced in 20th century at number 47), side-lights, and a rectangular three-paned overlight. The windows are 6/6 architraved sashes, with margin lights. All but the first-floor windows of the entrance bay have these sashes. A stucco cornice runs along the first storey of the entrance bay, and a stucco pediment tops the attic storey. Sashes at all but numbers 57, 61, and 63 cut across the entablature and encroach into the tympanum of each pediment.