NUMBERS 24-26, 28, 30, 32-38 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

ISLINGTON

TQ3184NE COMPTON ROAD 635-1/46/332 (West side) 29/09/72 Nos.24-26 ,28, 30, 32-38 and attached railings

GV II

Terraced houses. 1847-53. Developed by George Frasi and James Beaumont. Brick, stucco and roofs of slate. Three storeys over half-basement. The row forms a symmetrical group, the end and central sections having second floor windows in a full attic storey, the rest with round-arched dormers in a mansard roof. The end sections (nos 24-5 and 38) are four bays wide with side entrances, the central section (nos 31-2) is six bays wide; the rest form two groups of four two-bay houses. Half-basements and ground floors stuccoed, the ground floors with banded rustication; Greek Doric porches, panelled doors and fanlights; the first-floor windows are flat-arched throughout, the end and central sections have architraves and cornices on consoles, and cast iron balconies as on nos 31-59 Compton Road (q.v.), while the rest have architraves only and window-guards of scrolling ironwork; cornice to the whole terrace with bracketed stops between the mansard-roofed houses; attic storeys have round-arched windows. Margin lights generally to sashes on the first and second floors. Nos 30, 32 and 33 have cast-iron window-guards to ground-floor windows. No 38 has a two-storey recessed entrance bay with panelled door and fanlight between pilasters. Cast-iron railings to steps and area. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3187484581