Numbers 24 To 29 (Consecutive) And Attached Railings

Numbers 24 to 29 form a terrace of six semi-detached villas built in 1832 on a slope along the west side of Lloyd Square in Islington. They were planned in 1828 and laid out in 1832 by John Booth and his son, surveyors for the Lloyd Baker Estate, with architectural design by William Joseph Booth. The villas are constructed of brown and gold stock brick in Flemish bond, with stucco dressings and pediments over each pair, set beneath Welsh and artificial slate gabled roofs – with some roofs obscured by a parapet – and centre brick stacks.

The architecture is in a restrained Greek Revival style. Each villa follows a side-hall entrance plan, with an arrangement of two storeys and a basement, and many have roof extensions. Each villa has two windows, including a recessed one-window entrance bay which forms a link to the next. The end houses have two-window range returns, one to Lloyd Baker Street and the other to Wharton Street, incorporating a stucco prostyle portico side entrance.

Low steps lead to a deeply recessed stucco entrance with antae supporting an entablature. The architraved doorways vary slightly – numbers 26, 27 and 28 have reeded surrounds – all featuring a corniced head, rectangular overlight (some patterned), and panelled doors (numbers 25 and 27 are original). Porticoes include coupled antae and cast-iron railings. The architraved sashes throughout generally have a 4/4, 6/6, or 8/8 layout; numbers 24, 26, and 29 on the ground and first floors have margin lights. A recessed first-floor balconied link incorporates narrower doors or sashes. Plain stucco storey bands are found between the ground and first floors, and beneath the pediment. A stucco parapet has a stucco coping or blocking course to the first floor of the recessed links.

Attached cast-iron railings feature urn finials, while an iron garde-de-frise is present between numbers 25 and 26, and 27 and 28. Fine cast-iron neoclassical panels and scrolled braces flank the entrance gates of numbers 26, 27, and 28.