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Latitude: 51.5385 / 51°32'18"N
Longitude: -0.1123 / 0°6'44"W
OS Eastings: 531013
OS Northings: 183870
OS Grid: TQ310838
Mapcode National: GBR L2.YN
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.0LGF
Plus Code: 9C3XGVQQ+C3
Entry Name: Numbers 62 to 66 (Even) and Attached Railings and Garden Gate
Listing Date: 29 September 1972
Last Amended: 30 September 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1208399
English Heritage Legacy ID: 369226
ID on this website: 101208399
Location: King's Cross, Islington, London, N1
County: London
District: Islington
Electoral Ward/Division: Barnsbury
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Islington
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Andrew Barnsbury
Church of England Diocese: London
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ISLINGTON
TQ3183NW RICHMOND AVENUE
635-1/58/706 (South side)
29/09/72 Nos.62-66 (Even)
and attached railings and garden
gate
(Formerly Listed as:
RICHMOND AVENUE
(South side)
Nos.62-72 (Even))
GV II
Terrace of 3 attached villas. c.1841. Yellow stock bricks set
in Flemish bond with recessed link, stucco ground floor and
dressings; Welsh-slate hipped roof with coupled brackets to
projecting eaves and centre brick stacks. Side-hall entrance
plan with staircase. Greco-Egyptian style and detail. Three
storeys with basement; 2 windows each. Ground-floor bays
articulated by stylised rounded pilasters with paterae to
tops; horizontal row of paterae extends between pilasters
above entrance and sash. Steps rise to deeply recessed
entrance porch to left bay (nos. 64 & 66) and to right bay
(no. 62) with flanking stone sphinx and obelisk on stucco
balustrade (sphinxes missing from no. 66 & obelisks missing
from nos. 64 & 66); doorway with pilaster jambs carrying
corniced-head, original 4-panelled studded door and
rectangular overlight. 6/6 sashes throughout: ground-floor
sashes with margin lights. Recessed stucco panels below
ground-floor sashes; upper floors with stylised architraves
decorated with paterae. 1st floor with moulded stucco storey
band and cast-iron Neoclassical style window guards with
palmette motif. Linked garden gate attached to No. 62 in same
style but with iron guards removed; attached cast-iron area
railings.
In 1925 Arnold Bennett wrote in his diary after taking a trip
to explore Barnsbury...'The sphinxes and little Cleopatra
needles in front of the porticoes of a long row of houses in
Richmond Road [sic] are too marvellous.'
Listing NGR: TQ3101383870
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