Canonbury House And Attached Walls And Railings

Canonbury House is a detached house built around 1795, with alterations made later. It is constructed of brick, stucco, stone, and has a slate roof. The house has two main stories over a basement, with dormers in the attic. The front facade has five bays, with a central entrance. All windows have flat arches made of gauged brick. A string course runs above the basement windows, and the ground-floor windows and entrance are recessed under round arches, linked by a moulded band. The entrance has panelled double doors framed by Ionic columns supporting a modillion cornice that returns in the center, topped with an overlight. Ground-floor windows have architraves and blind boxes, while first-floor windows have flat arches with gauged brick heads. A mutule cornice tops the building, followed by a balustrade and two dormers with pediments, likely dating from the late 19th or early 20th century. The roof is hipped with side chimneys. A brick dentil cornice is visible on the rear and side elevations.

A three-story hipped wing, likely an addition from the early 19th century, projects from the center of the rear elevation. The front of the house has iron railings with urn finials and a lampholder. Garden walls flank the principal facade, featuring pineapple finials on the piers. The wall continues along Canonbury Place, facing numbers 1-5, and is predominantly 18th-century brick, except where it curves to incorporate an arched and pedimented garden entrance built of London stock brick.

Inside, the central staircase hall is divided into three sections by round arches, the second arch being filled with a flat, reeded architrave and a decorative fanlight. The walls are articulated by three shallow round blank arches on each side, topped with a modillion cornice to the first two bays. The staircase is a dog-leg design, featuring a wreathed and ramped handrail, stick balusters, and an open string, extending from the basement to the second floor. Original panelled doors, architraves, and window embrasures are present on the ground floor. One room on the ground floor has a dado rail, picture rail and an egg-and-dart cornice with a Greek key pattern on the ceiling, along with a cast-iron grate and chimney-piece in the Adam style. A linked room to the rear has a curved northeast corner wall with a fitted corner cupboard and a decorative entablature dating to around 1800. A Neo-Classical cast-iron grate with a bolection-moulded chimneypiece is found in a first-floor front room.