Numbers 12A To G, 12 To 30 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings

This is a terrace of 20 houses, numbered 12A to G, 12 to 30, situated along the south and east sides of Myddelton Square. The houses were built between 1824 and 1827 by William Chadwell Mylne, who was Surveyor to the New River Estate. They are constructed of yellow stock brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with banded stucco to the ground floor (which is rusticated at Nos. 12A to G) and stucco dressings. The houses at Nos. 12A to G have a Welsh slate mansard roof, while the roofs of the others are obscured by parapets. Brick party-wall stacks are present.

The houses follow a side-hall entrance plan and are four storeys high, with a basement. Each house has two windows. The return wall to Nos. 12A to G features a one-story stucco portico, mirroring a similar portico on the opposite side of the square to accommodate a passage leading to the back gardens. A similar portico also exists on the return wall for No. 30, facing Chadwell Street. Steps lead to a round and elliptical-arched entrance, featuring doorways with 1/4 fluted column jambs (flanking stucco pilasters at Nos. 12A to G; 1/2 fluted column jambs at Nos. 18 to 20), a corniced head (particularly fine at Nos. 18 to 20), fanlights (at Nos. 13 to 15, 17 to 18, 20 to 21, 23, 27 with patterned glazing), and pairs of panelled doors at Nos. 18 to 20, with the original doors remaining at Nos. 22 to 28. The ground floor features round and elliptical-arched sash windows, except for Nos. 12A to G, which have square-headed windows set in a stucco recess with a panel below, some with margin lights and Gothic style glazing bars. Gauged brick flat arches support mostly 6/6 and 3/3 sash windows on the upper floors, with some French doors. A stucco sill band runs along the first floor, beneath full-length sash windows set in arched recesses, linked by stucco impost bands (except at Nos. 12A to G). Iron-bracketed coupled cast-iron balconies with Vitruvian scroll and anthemion (floral pattern at Nos. 12A to G) are present to the railings. Rebuilding has occurred to the upper floors, and the brick parapets vary in height with a stucco band at Nos. 12A to G and a brick string course at Nos. 22 to 30, topped with stone coping. Good quality attached cast-iron railings with urn finials complete the facade. Myddelton Square is the largest in the area, aside from Finsbury Square, and is considered among Islington’s finest and most important features of the New River Estate. It represents a cohesive architectural style within the district.