Numbers 13-24 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings

Numbers 13-24 are a row of terraced houses built in 1821 by Richard Laycock, located on the south side of Canonbury Square in Islington. The houses are constructed of grey brick in Flemish bond with stucco and feature roofs made of Welsh slate. They rise four storeys above a basement and each house has two windows.

The central houses, numbers 17-20, are slightly set forward, as are numbers 13-14 and 23-24. The basement and ground floor are stuccoed, with the ground floor displaying channelled rustication. Each house has steps leading up to a round-arched entrance, which is flanked by fluted or panelled pilasters supporting a modillion cornice. Numbers 22-24 have fluted quarter-columns, fanlights with decorative glazing, and original panelled doors. Number 13 features a single-storey side entrance.

The ground-floor windows are round-arched with sashes that include intersecting glazing bars and margin-lights, except for numbers 13 and 24. All upper windows are flat-arched. The first-floor windows are proportioned for a piano nobile and have 6/6 sashes, with numbers 13-16 and 21-24 set in recessed round-arched panels with gauged brick heads, linked by a moulded springing band. Balconies supported on brackets with iron railings are present at the first-floor windows, with some balconies being individual and others shared.

A cornice runs above the second floor, although it remains intact only on numbers 13-14 and 17-22. On numbers 17-20, the wall rises above the cornice to create an attic storey with a stuccoed parapet, while the remaining houses, except for number 24 which lacks a fourth storey, have mansard roofs with dormers behind parapets. There are cast-iron railings in front of the area. Notably, author Evelyn Waugh lived at number 17A from 1928 to 1930.