539-541, LIVERPOOL ROAD

ISLINGTON

TQ3185SW LIVERPOOL ROAD 635-1/37/581 (West side) 25/09/90 Nos.539-541 (Odd)

GV II

Terraced houses. Late C18. Yellow brick, stucco, roofs obscured by parapet. Three storeys over basement, two-window range. Basement stuccoed and only slightly below street level; ground floor of no. 541 also stuccoed with banded rustication. Steps up to flat-arched entrance with plain stucco architrave consisting of pilasters with plain entablature and minimal cornice, pilaster capitals missing on no 541. All windows flat-arched; no 539 has two windows to ground floor with heads of gauged red brick; no 541 has one window with moulded stucco architrave; windows to upper floors have gauged brick heads except to second floor of no 539; parapet, with much rebuilding; stacks to party walls. INTERIOR: : no 539 has a round arch between entrance hall and staircase with pilasters and archivolt; staircase with turned newels and stick balusters, altered on second flight between ground and first floors. Apart from this, only the top floor of nos 539-41 could be inspected and revealed no original features of interest.

Listing NGR: TQ3108085060