Numbers 58 To 62, 63 To 65 And 66 And Attached Railings And Gatepiers

Numbers 58 to 62, 63 to 65, and 66 form a terrace of nine houses, some now flats, situated at the northwest corner of Myddelton Square. Number 58 also fronts onto Mylne Street, marking the entrance to the square. The houses were built between 1824 and 1827 by William Chadwell Mylne, the Surveyor to the New River Estate.

The construction utilizes yellow stock brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with banded stucco to the ground floor and stucco dressings. The roofs are gabled, with dormers on numbers 62 to 65; number 64 has a mansard roof, and brick party-wall stacks rise from the property. The design follows a side-hall entrance plan. The houses are four storeys high with a basement, and generally have two windows, except for the left-hand return wall of number 66 in Inglebert Street, which is a three-window range with an extension.

Steps lead to a round and elliptical arched entrance to the left (number 58 has a segmental arched entrance to the right, and a late 19th-century bay window to the ground floor left). Other entrances have an architraved surround, set in a stucco recess, sometimes with three-quarter fluted column jambs (numbers 59 to 62), a reeded surround (number 64), or panelled pilaster jambs topped with a corniced head (number 58’s entrance, which is set within flanking stucco pilasters carrying an entablature). Fanlights are present above the doors (numbers 58-59, and 66 have a patterned fanlight), and original panelled doors remain at numbers 58 to 62 and 66 (the latter having double doors). The ground floor features round and elliptical arched sashes in architraved surrounds or stucco recesses, often with a panel below. Gauged brick flat arches enclose mostly 6/6 and 3/3 sashes on the upper floors. A stucco sill band runs beneath the full-length sashes on the first floor, these being set in arched recesses linked by stucco impost bands. Iron brackets support coupled cast-iron balconies with Vitruvian scroll and anthemion patterns, except at number 58 which has individual balconies. Some rebuilding of the upper floors has occurred, topped by a plain brick parapet with a brick string course and stone coping. Cast-iron railings with urn and acorn finials are attached to the property, and the Neoclassical style cast-iron entrance-gate piers are located at number 58. Myddelton Square is the largest in the area, aside from Finsbury Square, and is regarded as Islington’s most important adornment of the New River Estate, noted for its stylistic cohesion.