10-14, Canonbury Place

This is a row of four terraced houses with shops, built in the mid-19th century. The houses are of red and grey brick with stucco detailing, and have slate roofs. Each house is two bays wide and is three storeys high. The ground floor incorporates shops, with entrances positioned from right to left – a shop entrance, a shop front, and a house entrance, although number 14 has a central shop entrance and a house entrance in Alwyne Place. Most of the shops retain their 19th-century shop fronts, possibly original, with numbers 11 and 14 featuring cast iron columns and small openwork grilles above the windows; number 11 also has Art Nouveau tiles below the window line. Pilasters and bands of grey brick clearly define the divisions between the houses and between the floors. The upper floor windows are flat-arched with architraves and cornices supported by boldly detailed consoles. A moulded sill band runs to the second-floor windows, which have a square attic-like appearance, with moulded architraves. Above this is a cornice band and then boxed eaves with a simple moulded eaves cornice. The party walls project above the roof line and support two stacks of grey brick, decorated with recessed panels of red brick and cornices. The return elevation to Alwyne Place features a round-arched entrance to number 14, a modillion cornice to the ground floor, and similar detailing to the upper floors as the main elevation. The buildings are included on the list for their group value.