Number 24-33 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings

Number 24-33 constitute a row of ten terraced houses, originally built between 1841 and 1843 as part of Granville Square, a development planned in 1828 by John Booth and his son, surveyors for the Lloyd Baker Estate. Later additions, numbers 27-38B, were completed in 1864 by the Metropolitan Railway. The buildings underwent significant dismantling and reconstruction around 1980 by Islington Council and were subsequently converted into flats.

The houses are constructed of yellow stock brick in Flemish bond, with banded stucco to the ground floors of numbers 24-26, and stucco lined to resemble ashlar to numbers 27-33. The roofs are obscured. They follow a side-hall entrance plan. Number 24 features a stucco portico, and a side entrance is located in the return wall on Granville Street. The houses are three storeys high with a basement and have two windows each. The design is symmetrical, with groups of six houses, and the centre and end houses project forward. Steps lead to the entrances; numbers 24 and 29-33 have original panelled doors set within doorways with panelled pilaster jambs, corniced heads, overlights, and patterned or plain rectangular panels. Other houses have 20th-century panelled doors, with numbers 29-32 sharing a paired-door arrangement and a common console bracket.

Windows are primarily 6/6 and 8/8 sashes; the ground floor windows of numbers 24-26 feature margin lights. Upper floors have architraved surrounds, with full-length sashes and cornices, and individual balconies with cast-iron railings. Numbers 27-33 have tripartite pilastered ground-floor sashes with keystones, and cast-iron window guards to numbers 29-32. Upper floors of numbers 27-33 predominantly have 2/2 sashes, some with iron window guards and sill brackets. A plain stucco band sits beneath the cornice and blocking course of numbers 24-26, while numbers 27-33 have a brick string course and a plain brick parapet with some iron tie rods. The plain brick right return of number 33 forms a side wall to 'Riceyman Steps'. Attached cast-iron railings have tasselled spearhead finials.

Granville Square, originally called Sharp Square after a relative of Thomas Lloyd Baker, was the final portion of the Lloyd Baker Estate to be built and was formerly a rubbish tip. St. Philip's church, designed by Edward Buckton Lamb, was originally located in the centre of the square but was demolished in 1938. The square is notable for its conventional terrace style and its constrained location between Wharton and Lloyd Baker Streets. Entrances to the square are located in Granville Street and connect to King’s Cross Road via granite steps, known as "Plum Pudding Steps" or "Riceyman Steps".