Numbers 2-68 (Even) And Attached Railings

Terraced houses on the north side of Brooksby Street in Islington, built in 1824 by Jeffrey Morgan, as recorded on a plaque between numbers 32 and 34. The terrace consists of two storeys over basement, with yellow brick set in Flemish bond. Some houses have an additional storey or dormers set within mansard roofs. Welsh and asbestos slate is visible on the roofs.

The common design throughout the terrace features two windows per storey, gauged brick heads to all openings, steps up to round-arched entrances with fanlights, round-arched ground-floor windows, flat-arched first-floor windows, a parapet, and chimney stacks positioned at party walls. The whole terrace has been much rebuilt, though doors of original design appear to have been reintroduced in many houses.

Individual houses retain or display various surviving or restored features. Number 2 has three windows and a flat-arched carriage or works entrance to the right with two round-arched windows to its left. Number 6 retains original cornice and panelled door, original design sashes, and a dormer in mansard roof. Number 8 has decorative glazing to its fanlight and original design sashes. Numbers 10 and 12 have original design sashes to the ground floor, with number 12 having decorative glazing (possibly inserted) to its fanlight and an additional storey set back behind the parapet. Numbers 14, 22, and 38 have decorative glazing to fanlights. Numbers 16, 20, 30, 36, 42, 54, 56, and 68 have additional storeys set back behind the parapet. Numbers 18 and 50 have flat-arched or mansard dormers. Numbers 24 and 26 have fluted quarter-columns to their doorcases. Number 24 also has decorative cornice and additional storey behind parapet. Number 28 has fluted quarter-columns and a mansard dormer. Numbers 46, 47, and 48 have original sashes to the ground floor. Numbers 58 and 66 have original design sashes with intersecting glazing bars or tracery. Numbers 60, 64, 65, and 68 have lowered first-floor windows. Numbers 64 to 68 have ground floors stuccoed and scored as ashlar with a storey band.

Cast-iron railings to steps and areas run throughout the terrace, generally featuring spear-and-tassel finials. Replacements have been made to finials and railings at number 16, finials at numbers 34 to 36, finials and railings at number 42, and possibly finials and railings at numbers 48 and 60, with finials at numbers 64 to 68 replaced. Despite these alterations, this unusually long range of cast-iron railings maintains consistent design throughout.