1, Malvern Terrace

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NW MALVERN TERRACE 635-1/58/609 (North side) No.1

GV II

Small double-fronted house at end of terrace of villas. 1839-1841. By Joseph Kay, Surveyor to Thornhill Estate. Brown/beige stock bricks set in Flemish bond with stucco dressings and quoins; roof obscured by parapet. Centre-hall entrance plan. Three storeys; 3-window range. Enclosed stucco portico entrance with entablature and blocking course; double C20 doors and rectangular overlight to front. Ground-floor 2/2 round-arched sashes with stucco architraves and impost blocks. 1st floor stucco sill band. Upper floors with 2/2 architraved sashes and small brackets to sills; 1st floor outer sashes with cornices, centre sash with pediment. 2nd floor stucco storey band. Stucco band, cornice and parapet above. Malvern Terrace is a single row of terraced villas similar to Ripplevale Grove (q.v.), and set back from a paved pedestrian access with long front gardens. They were built as groomsmen's cottages for Ripplevale Grove; No. 7 may have been the tackroom with carriageway to the ground-floor. (Mary Cosh: Barnsbury: Islington: 1981-1981: 17).

Listing NGR: TQ3110283967