Numbers 50 And 52 (Even) And Attached Railings And Garden Gates

ISLINGTON

TQ3083NE RICHMOND AVENUE 635-1/57/703 (South side) 29/09/72 Nos.50 AND 52 (Even) and attached railings and garden gates (Formerly Listed as: RICHMOND AVENUE (South side) Nos.46-60 (Even))

GV II

Semi-detached villa. c. 1841. Yellow stock bricks set in Flemish bond with stucco ground floor and dressings; hipped roof with projecting eaves and centre brick stacks. Side-hall entrance plan with staircase. Greco-Egyptian style and detail. Three storeys with basement; 2 windows each plus recessed link. Ground-floor bays articulated by stylised rounded pilasters with paterae to tops; horizontal row of paterae extends between pilasters above entrance and sash. Steps rise to deeply recessed entrance porch to outer bays with flanking stone sphinxes and obelisks on stucco balustrade (obelisks missing from No. 52); doorway with pilaster jambs carrying corniced-head, original 4-panelled studded door and rectangular overlight. 6/6 sashes throughout: ground-floor sashes with margin lights and recessed stucco panels below; upper floors with stylised architraves decorated with paterae. 1st floor with moulded stucco storey band and cast-iron Neoclassical style window guards with palmette motif. No. 52 with coupled brackets to eaves. Linked garden gates in same style but with iron guards removed; attached cast-iron area railings. In 1925 Arnold Bennett wrote in his diary after taking a trip to explore Barnsbury...'The sphinxes and little Cleopatra needles in front of the porticoes of a long row of houses in Richmond Road [sic] are too marvellous.'

Listing NGR: TQ3095183869