Number 44-66 (Even) And Railings Attached To Numbers 54-64

The building comprises twelve terraced houses, numbers 44 to 66 (even), together with attached railings to numbers 54 to 64, located on Amwell Street, Islington. Constructed between 1828 and 1829, the houses feature 19th-century shopfronts, some of which have been altered in the 20th century. The design is by William Chadwell Mylne, Surveyor for the New River Estate.

The houses are built of yellow stock brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with banded stucco to the ground floor of numbers 54 to 64. The others have wooden shopfronts and stucco dressings. The roofs are obscured, and the houses have brick party-wall stacks. The houses have a ground-floor shop and side-hall entrance plan, leading to the upper floors, with side-hall entrances to others. They are three storeys high with a basement, and have hand-return walls to Inglebert and River Streets.

A low set of steps leads to a round-arched entrance to numbers 44 and 54 to 66, the entrance to numbers 44 and 66 incorporating a side entrance in the return wall. The entrances have architraved door surrounds with console brackets to panelled pilaster jambs, a corniced head, a fanlight (patterned to numbers 54 and 58 to 64), and original panelled doors to numbers 44, 56, 60, 64, and 66. The ground floor of numbers 54 to 64 has 6/6 round-arched architraved sash windows.

The shopfronts to numbers 44 to 52 and 66 have been extensively altered in the 20th century, although those of numbers 50 and 52 are largely original. They comprise a house door to the outer bay, a shop door to the middle bay, and a bay window to the inner bay. Pilasters support a curved fascia and cornice. Number 66 retains its original fascia, cornice, and panelled doors.

The upper floors have gauged-brick flat arches and predominantly 6/6 sashes. There is a stucco sill band to the first floor, beneath full-length sashes set within arched brick recesses, linked by a stucco impost band. Cast-iron balconies with Vitruvian scroll and anthemion patterns adorn the railings of numbers 54 to 64. Some rebuilding of the upper floors has occurred. A plain brick parapet features a brick string course and stone coping. Attached cast-iron railings, topped with urn finials, run along the front of numbers 54 to 64.