Description

ISLINGTON

TQ2985NE CARLETON ROAD
635-1/27/198 (North side)
29/09/72 No.23

II

Detached house. Mid-to-late C19. Probably by George Truefitt.
Yellow brick set in Flemish bond with dressings of red brick
and stone or stucco. Three storeys, four-window range.
Flat-arched entrance set far back in a two-storey entrance bay
to the left: the front of the bay projecting slightly and
carried on two engaged columns with foliage capitals and
cambered head of gauged red brick; round-arched window above
with head of gauged red brick, and courses of red brick in the
wall below; stepped gable with stone ball finial echoing that
of the main front: this has a two-storey bay to the front with
windows set in groups of three, flat-arched with heads of
gauged red brick and foliage capitals to front face only of
the dividing piers; courses of red brick; dentil brickwork to
coped parapet with scrolled decorative ironwork; second-floor
windows flat-arched and set back under a round arch of red and
yellow gauged brick, the tympanum filled with gauged red
herringbone brickwork; crow-stepped gable of two stages, the
first of five steps, the second of seven, with ball finials at
the beginning of each stage and an apparently mis-shapen
finial at the apex; side stack.

Listing NGR: TQ2970485562

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490092

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