Numbers 4 And 5 And Attached Railings

ISLINGTON

TQ3231NW CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE 635-1/78/211 (East side) 29/12/50 Nos.4 5 and attached railings

GV II

Terraced houses. Early C18 with late C18 doorcases. Yellow brick with red brick dressings. Four storeys over basement, three-window range to no 4, three-and-a-half to no 5. Flat-arched entrances to inner bays with paired wooden doorcases of panelled pilasters, enriched entablature and garlands over pilasters; overlight, and panelled door of original design to no 4. All windows flat-arched with heads of gauged red brick and red brick dressings; frames set almost flush with the wall; moulded brick storey bands to ground, first and second floors, plain brick storey band to third floor; chamfered quoins of gauged brick to outer walls of the pair; no 5 has cast-iron balconies to first-floor windows and narrow outer windows to all floors, blank to first and third floors; parapet. Cast-iron railings to area with spike finials. INTERIOR: of no. 5: entrance hall with moulded panelling and plaster cornice; ornately carved staircase with ramped handrail, newel posts square in plan and panelled, with drops answered by similar ornaments in the dado panelling, the upper posts projecting below the string as a pendant carved with a rose in high relief; carved balusters of elongated vase form to ground, first and second floors, and barleysugar balusters above; open string to ground, first and second floors with scrolled consoles decorated with acanthus on their undersides; between the second and third floors the string is closed and decorated with waterleaf mouldings. The ground-floor front room has been made shallower in plan and retains only a little of the original modillion cornice; this and the first-floor front room decorated, probably in the early C20, with neo-Jacobean panelling, fireplaces etc of poor quality; second-floor front room has original panelling altered, and cornice. The back rooms to the ground, first and second floors have original panelling and cornices with corner fireplaces, that to ground floor of late C18 or early C19 date with matching grate; closets on ground, first and second floors panelled with cornices, fireplaces with early C19 cast-iron grate to ground floor and good late C18 or early C19 Gothick cast-iron grate to first floor. The third floor not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3202181922