21-30, Cloudesley Street

These are a group of terraced houses dating from around 1836, located in Cloudesley Street, Islington. They were originally listed as numbers 7-34, but the listing now covers numbers 21-30. The houses are built of yellow brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern with stucco detailing, and have roofs of Welsh and artificial slate. They are arranged in pairs, with an inner bay of two storeys featuring a dormer window in the attic, and an outer, two-storey entrance bay set back.

The basement and ground floor have been stuccoed, with the ground floor decorated with chamfered rustication. There are steps leading to round-arched entrances, each with a simple doorcase and fanlight. The ground-floor windows are flat-arched and tripartite. The first-floor windows in the inner bay are also flat-arched and tripartite, adorned with a cornice supported by consoles and decorative paterae on the frieze, and each has individual balconies with cast-iron railings. The first-floor window above the entrance has a gauged brick arch and original sash windows with radiating glazing bars. A stuccoed cornice and blocking course run along the top of the building, topped by flat-arched dormers within a mansard roof. A stack is contained within the party wall between the houses.

Specific features vary between the houses: number 21 has a flat-arched entrance with decorative glazing to the overlight, a panelled door of original design, and cast-iron trelliswork to the porch, designed in an early 19th century style. Houses 22-23 have a flat-arched entrance with overlight but lack the paterae decorations on the first-floor window. Number 24 features decorative glazing to its fanlight and also lacks paterae. Numbers 25-6 have replacement sash windows for the first-floor window above the entrance. Number 27 has decorative glazing to its fanlight and original sash windows in the inner bay. Houses 28-9 retain original sash windows to the first-floor inner bay, incorporating panelled pilasters. Finally, number 30 features decorative glazing to its fanlight, original sash windows in the inner bay, and a dormer in the mansard roof above the entrance. Cast-iron railings with spear-and-tassel finials are found on the steps and area.