Numbers 35-83 (Odd) And Attached Railings

Terraced houses on Cloudesley Road, Islington, dating from around 1830. The row comprises numbers 35 to 83 (odd numbers only) with attached cast-iron railings.

The houses are built in yellow brick laid in Flemish bond, with roofs of Welsh or asbestos slate. They are two storeys over basement, with some featuring dormers set in mansard roofs and two windows each. The standard architectural design includes gauged brick heads to all openings, round-arched entrances with fanlights accessed by steps up, ground-floor windows with round arches, first-floor windows with flat arches, parapets, and stacks positioned at party walls. Many houses have two rectangular recessed panels incorporated into their parapets.

Individual houses display distinctive features. Numbers 35 and 39 retain original panelled doors and original-design sashes to the ground floor with intersecting tracery; number 39 additionally has an extra storey concealed behind the parapet. Number 41 has dormers in a mansard roof. Number 43 appears to have been completely rebuilt with mansard dormers. Number 45 features fluted pilasters, original-design sashes with intersecting tracery to the ground floor, and mansard dormers. Number 47 has fluted pilasters, an original panelled door, original sashes with intersecting tracery to ground floor, and mansard dormers. Number 49 has original sashes with intersecting tracery at ground-floor level. Number 51 retains original sashes with radiating tracery to the ground floor and mansard dormers. Number 53 has fluted quarter-columns, original sashes with intersecting tracery to ground floor, and mansard dormers. Number 55 appears completely rebuilt with mansard dormers. Number 57 has mansard dormers. Number 59 has original sashes with intersecting tracery to ground floor and mansard dormers. Number 61 features fluted quarter-columns and original sashes to ground floor with intersecting tracery. Number 63 has fluted quarter-columns, decorative glazing to the fanlight, original sashes with intersecting tracery to ground floor, and mansard dormers. Numbers 65 to 67 appear completely rebuilt; number 65 is constructed in new brick with an additional storey set back behind the parapet. Number 69 has fluted quarter-columns, original sashes with radiating tracery to ground floor, and mansard dormers. Number 71 retains relics of a 19th-century shop-front to the ground floor with surviving glazing and ornate stucco brackets flanking the fascia; it is of single-window range with original sashes. Number 73 has mansard dormers. Number 75 features fluted pilasters and original sashes. Number 77 has fluted pilasters, original sashes to ground floor, and mansard dormers. Number 79 has a rendered parapet and mansard dormers. Number 81 features fluted pilasters, an original panelled door, and original sashes. Number 83 has fluted pilasters, decorative glazing to the fanlight, an original panelled door, original sashes to ground floor, and mansard dormers.

Cast-iron railings with spearhead finials and urn standards run along the steps and area fronts of all houses except numbers 43, 55, 65, 67, 71, and 73.