Numbers 25-28 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings

Numbers 25-28 and their attached railings form a terrace of houses built in 1841 in Islington. They were developed by William Watkins and likely designed by J.W. Griffith. The houses are constructed of yellow brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern, with stucco detailing, and the roof is hidden by a parapet. The terrace originally comprised a symmetrical design, though the northern wing was later rebuilt, and numbers 26-28 project slightly.

The houses are four storeys high, with a basement, and retain two windows on each floor. The basement and ground floor are stuccoed, with the ground floor featuring chamfered rustication. The entrances are round-arched, with pilaster jambs, a cornice, a fanlight, and decorative glazing on numbers 25-27. Original designed panelled doors are present. The ground floor windows are round-arched, while the first and second floors have flat-arched windows with gauged brick heads. A continuous bracketed balcony with cast-iron railings spans the first floor. A moulded stucco cornice and blocking course sits above the second floor, acting as a sill band for the third-floor round-arched windows. The sashes are original and include radiating glazing bars to the ground floor of numbers 25, 26, 27 and the upper floors of number 28. Number 25 has an additional cornice above its parapet. Cast iron railings are present on the area to the front.