55, Britton Street

ISLINGTON

TQ3182SE BRITTON STREET 635-1/74/98 (North East side) 29/09/72 No.55

GV II

Terraced house with shop. c.1825. Multicoloured brick set in Flemish bond with rebuilding in yellow brick to second floor, roof of Welsh slate. Four storeys, two-window range. Ground floor has round-arched entrance to St John's Path to left, and the rest of the front is taken up by a well-preserved early C19 wooden shop front with engaged Roman Doric columns carrying entablature with fascia, end scrolls and cornice; central entrance with decoratively glazed overlight, and small-paned shop windows with curved corners. First-floor windows flat-arched with gauged brick heads, recessed in round-arched panels with gauged brick heads linked by stone springing bands; upper windows flat-arched with 6/6 sashes of original design; parapet; two dormers in mansard roof; stack to party wall. (Dan Cruikshank and Peter Wyld.: London. The art of Georgian building: London: 1975-: P.38).

Listing NGR: TQ3163482020