5-25 (consecutive) Milner Square, and attached railings

The buildings at 5 to 25 Milner Square, along with their attached railings, are a group of terraced houses, now used as flats, forming the eastern half of an oblong square. They were built in 1841 by Roumieu and Gough. The square underwent remodelling and restoration in 1978 by Islington Council, and the pilastered entrances were altered in the 1930s. The buildings are constructed of grey and beige brick in Flemish bond, with stucco dressings and a ground floor finish. The roofs and party-wall stacks are hidden behind parapets.

The design of Milner Square is characterised by a strongly unified and idiosyncratic composition, with the oblong shape extending into the exit roads at the narrow ends, featuring re-entrant corners and rounded outer angles. The houses are four storeys high with a basement, and each has three windows. A continuous giant order, composed of a pilastrade, rises from the ground storey entablature to a stucco entablature above the second storey. Broad brick pilasters with raised edges flank the first and second floor sash windows, which are horizontally separated by wide moulded stucco panels. The first floor features full-length 3/3 sash windows with margin lights and simple iron balconettes. The second floor has 2/2 sash windows with margin lights and iron window guards with a foliated pattern. The ground floor has a two-window width, with steps leading to a projecting entrance bay. This bay features a recessed doorway with pilaster jambs topped with a corniced head, a three-panelled door, a rectangular overlight, and flanking pilasters. A tripartite sash window is set within a panelled recess. A brick arcade to the third floor features narrow blind arches above the pilasters, alternating with margined sashes aligned with the middle storeys’ windows. A simple stucco parapet sits above a stucco band indicating the removal of a cornice. Attached iron railings feature arrowhead finials and stanchions, along with smaller intermediate finials.

There are four additional houses to the south. Milner Place, also designed by the same architects in a similar but less pronounced style, connects Milner Square with Gibson Square. Milner Square's design is notable for its radical logic, a characteristic rarely seen outside Scotland and the North, and unusual for London.