Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NE COLEBROOKE ROW
635-1/59/324 (East side)
20/09/54 Nos.56 AND 57

GV II

Terraced houses. Early C18. Brown brick with red brick
dressings, clay-tiled roof. Three storeys over basement, three
windows each. Flat-arched entrance to each house in inner bay
with simple architraves and coupled hoods on foliated scrolled
brackets, panelled doors. Windows to ground and first floors
segmental-arched with red brick dressings to heads and sides;
6/6 sashes, the sash boxes set almost flush with the wall.
Parapet, dormers in mansard roof, one to no 56, two to no 57.
Access to interior of no 56 not possible. INTERIOR: of no 57
has entrance hall with panelled dado to party wall with no 56
and unmoulded panelling to the opposite, partition wall, some
of it altered; wooden cornice; the arrangement of panelled
dado to one side and panelled partition to the other continues
up the staircase as far as the first floor. The dog-leg stair
has turned newels, turned balusters and a moulded rail from
the basement upwards, the balusters in the last flight
renewed. The downstairs room is fully panelled with moulded
rails and muntins, and elaborate wooden cornice; presumably
two rooms have been thrown into one, and there is a good deal
of replacement panelling; the fireplace in the front part and
the corner fireplace at the back have both been considerably
renewed. The first-floor front room is fully panelled with
moulded rails and muntins and wooden cornice; the mantelpiece
with eared architrave and corniced shelf possibly introduced.

Listing NGR: TQ3179083562

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503306

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