54, Colebrooke Row

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NE COLEBROOKE ROW 635-1/59/322 (East side) No.54

GV II

Terraced house. c.1745. Developed by Steemson. A porch and two-storey bay were added in the late C19; these were removed and the whole of the lower part of the street front rebuilt c.1988 under the supervision of Chambers, Goodwin and Partners. Brown brick laid in Flemish bond with dressings of gauged red brick. Three storeys over basement with dormers in attic; three-window range. Flat-arched entrance flanked by fluted pilasters supporting entablature whose dentil cornice breaks forward over the pilasters; overlight. All windows flat-arched with heads of gauged red brick. Parapet; dormers in mansard roof; side stacks. INTERIOR: : staircase hall with panelled dado and modillion cornice. Fine staircase with curtail step, wreathed, ramped and moulded handrail, turned newels and column-on-vase balusters, the vase decorated with fluting, open string with scroll and leaf forms; from the first to the third floors the balusters are of simpler design. The front and back rooms on the ground floor have a plaster modillion cornice, a replica of the original; bolection-moulded fireplace in the front room; the first-floor front room has a white marble fireplace with simplified pilasters and an early C19 cast-iron grate. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3178283546