Numbers 1-5 (Consecutive) and Attached Railings

Numbers 1-5 (consecutive) and the attached railings are a group of terraced houses located in Islington. Numbers 1-3 and 389 City Road date from around 1800, while numbers 4-5 were built around 1814. The houses are constructed of yellow brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with stucco dressings and mansard roofs covered in Welsh and artificial slate.

The houses are four storeys high, with a basement, and each has two windows, except for 389 City Road which has an additional double-fronted three-window range facing City Road. The basement and ground floor of 389 City Road are stuccoed, with the ground floor featuring banded rustication. A round-arched entrance is present, complemented by engaged Greek Doric columns at 389 City Road, topped with a cornice and a fanlight. Numbers 1-2 have pilasters with rosette stops, number 3 has no stops, and numbers 4-5 feature lion-head stops. Their fanlights contain decorative glazing. The original design panelled doors remain.

The ground-floor windows are round-arched with gauged brick heads, while the upper-floor windows are flat-arched with gauged brick heads. A continuous bracketed balcony with iron railings extends across 389 City Road and numbers 1-3, while numbers 4-5 each have individual iron balconies. Windows at numbers 389 City Road and 1-3 Colebrooke Row are set in recessed round-arched panels with gauged brick heads. The windows are 6/6 sashes of original design with radiating glazing bars to the ground floors of numbers 1, 2 (ground and second floors) and 3. A parapet tops the building, with dormers in the roof and stacks along the party walls. Cast-iron railings are present to the area of numbers 2 and 4-5, and a scrolled wrought-iron overthrow incorporates a lampholder to numbers 2-4.