Numbers 13-24 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings

ISLINGTON

TQ3184SE CANONBURY SQUARE 635-1/53/190 (South side) 20/09/54 Nos.13-24 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: CANONBURY SQUARE Formerly listed as Nos 13, 14, 14a, 15, 15a & 15b, 16-24 (consec))

GV II

Terraced houses. 1821. Developed by Richard Laycock. Grey brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roofs of Welsh slate. Four storeys above basement, two windows each. Nos 17-20 form a centrepiece and are set forward slightly, as are nos 13-14 and 23-24. Basement and ground floor stuccoed, the ground floor with channelled rustication. Steps up to round-arched entrance with fluted or panelled pilasters supporting modillion cornice on all up to no 21; nos 22-24 have fluted quarter-columns, fanlights with decorative glazing and panelled doors of original design. No 13 has single-storey side entrance. Ground-floor windows round-arched, the sashes with intersecting glazing bars, and margin-lights on all but nos 13 and 24. All upper windows flat-arched. The first-floor windows have piano nobile proportions and 6/6 sashes, and on nos 13-16 and 21-24 are set in recessed round-arched panels with gauged brick heads, the arcade linked by a moulded springing band. Balconies to first-floor windows supported on brackets with iron railings, some to individual windows, some shared. Cornice above second floor, intact only on nos 13-14, 17-22. On nos 17-20 the wall is carried up above cornice to form an attic storey with stuccoed parapet; on all the rest, except no 24 which has no fourth storey, mansard roofs with dormers behind parapets. Cast-iron railings to area. Evelyn Waugh lived at no 17A from 1928-30. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division; Eric Willatts: Streets with a story. The book of Islington: London: 1986-).

Listing NGR: TQ3186184430