Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NW LLOYD SQUARE
635-1/68/599 (North side)
29/12/50 Nos.14-23 (Consecutive)
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
LLOYD SQUARE
(North side)
Nos.3-12; 14-18; 20-29)
(Formerly Listed as:
LLOYD SQUARE
No.19)

GV II

Terrace of villas. 1832. Ten semi-detached linked villas on
slope of hill along north side of square. Planned in 1828 and
laid out in 1832 by John Booth, and his son, also John,
Surveyors for the Lloyd Baker Estate; another son William
Joseph, architect. Brown and gold stock bricks set in Flemish
bond with stucco dressings, and stucco pediment over each
pair; Welsh and artificial slate gabled roofs, many with roof
extensions, others obscured by parapet; brick centre stacks.
Side-hall entrance plan to outer linked bay of each house.
Restrained Greek Revival style. Two-storeys with basement; 2
windows each including recessed 1-window entrance bay coupled
as link and left-hand (Cumberland Gardens) and right-hand
(Lloyd Street) return walls with scattered windows. Low steps
rise to deeply recessed stucco entrance with antae supporting
entablature except no. 15 (altered). Architraved (no. 20 with
reeded surround with corner stops) doorway with corniced-head,
rectangular overlight and original panelled door except nos.
14 and 18 (C20 door). Architraved sashes throughout:
ground-floor predominantly 6/6 sashes (with margin lights) and
no. 17 with cast-iron window guards. 1st floor mostly with 2/2
and 6/6 sashes with margin lights; returns with scattered and
irregular sashes. 1st floor recessed balconied links with
narrower doors or sashes: nos. 15-16 with deteriorated turned
wooden columns which once supported 1st floor porch roof and
with notable patching in to brick wall; nos. 21-22 with
cast-iron structure with glazed roof and Neoclassical support.
Plain stucco band beneath pediments (nos. 16, 17, 18, & 19
with stucco infill to lower corners); stucco parapet with
stucco coping or blocking course to 1st floor recessed link.
Good paved flagstones to nos. 14 & 15 entrance steps and walk.
Attached cast-iron railings with urn finials.
(The Squares of Islington: Cosh, M: The Squares of Islington
Part I: Finsbury and Clerkenwell: Islington: 1990-: 57-58).

Listing NGR: TQ3108682807

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27083714

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