Numbers 1 To 12, 12A To 12C (Consecutive) And Attached Railings

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NW WILMINGTON SQUARE 635-1/68/904 (South East side) 29/09/72 Nos.1-12; 12A-12C (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: WILMINGTON SQUARE (South West side) No.1) (Formerly Listed as: WILMINGTION SQUARE (South West side) Nos.2-12; 12A, 12B & 12C)

GV II

Twelve terraced houses. 1819-1831; post-War reconstruction to nos. 8-11; c.1989 reconstruction of pediment to no. 12. John Wilson, builder for Lord Compton and the Spa Fields Estate. Yellow stock brick laid in Flemish bond with banded stucco and rusticated stucco (nos. 1, 6-7, 12), ground-floors and stucco dressings; roofs obscured by parapet, brick party-wall stacks. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase. Four storeys with basement; 2 windows each except nos. 6-7 which are 3 windows wide, plus 1-window range to right (Yardley Street) and left-hand (Tysoe Street) return walls. Symmetrical group with projecting pedimented end-houses and nos. 6-7 being a pedimented centrepiece, breaking forward. Steps rise to entrance (no. 1 with 1-storey entrance extension; nos. 12A-12C with full-height canted entrance extension): round-arched doorway set in narrow stucco recess with fluted 1/4 column jambs carrying corniced-head, fanlight (nos. 1-7 patterned), and panelled doors. Ground-floor round-arched sashes with 6/6 curved and radial glazing bars. Nos. 8-11 reconstructed laterally since the War with extensive reworking of fenestration and doors so that there is now a single front door called '8-11' which was the original no. 9 and a 9-window range rather than the original 10-window range. Gauged-brick flat arches to upper storeys except 1st floor sashes to end and centrepieces which are gauged-brick round arches. 1st floor stucco sill band beneath full-length 6/6 sashes with coupled cast-iron balconies supported by iron brackets. Stucco storey bands to 2nd (6/6 sashes) and 3rd (3/3 sashes) floors; 3rd floor also has projecting stucco cornice and sill band. Altered stucco cornice and blocking course. End and centrepiece houses with stucco pediments: no. 12 has been rebuilt; the centre typanum adorned with crossed laurel branches in low relief. Attached cast-iron railings with urn finials. Wilmington Square was created from the Earls of Northampton's Spa Fields Estate, which in 1817 the 9th Earl assigned to his heir Lord Compton. The subsequent building in Wilmington Square was one of London's 1st post-Waterloo developments. Progress was piecemeal: the south terrace (nos. 1-12) was the 1st and grandest; for financial reasons the square was reduced in depth and thus became a backwater on the fringes of estates. (The Squares of Islington: Cosh, M: The Squares of Islington Part I: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: Islington: 1990-: 93-98).

Listing NGR: TQ3122882543