Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3184NE CANONBURY PLACE
635-1/46/170 (East side)
20/09/54 Canonbury House and attached walls
and railings

GV II

Formerly known as: St Stephen's Vicarage.
Detached house. c.1795, altered. Brick, stucco, stone, and
roof of slate. Two storeys over basement, with dormers in
attic. Five bays window range with central entrance; all
windows have flat arches of gauged brick. String course above
basement windows; ground-floor windows and entrance recessed
under round arches linked by moulded springing band; the
entrance has panelled double doors between Ionic engaged
columns supporting modillion cornice which breaks back in the
centre; overlight. Ground-floor windows have architraves and
blind boxes; first-floor windows flat-arched with heads of
gauged brick; mutule cornice with balustrade and two
pedimented dormers above, all in stone, the dormers probably
of late C19 or early C20 date. Hipped-roof with side stacks.
Brick dentil cornice to rear and side elevations. Three storey
hipped wing, an addition probably of the early C19, projects
from centre of rear elevation.
Iron railings with urn finials and overthrow lampholder at
front of house. Principal facade flanked by garden walls with
pineapple finials to the piers; the wall continues down
Canonbury Place facing nos 1-5 (q.v.), C18 brick except where
it is upswept to embrace an arched and pedimented garden
entrance of London stock brick.
Inside, the depth of the central staircase hall is divided
into three by round arches, the second arch being filled by a
flat-arched reeded architrave with decorative fanlight. The
walls are articulated by three shallow round blank arches to
either side; modillion cornice to the first two bays. Dog-leg
staircase with wreathed and ramped handrail, stick balusters,
and open string, running from basement up to second floor.
Original panelled doors, architraves and panelled window
embrasures to ground floor. Left-hand room on the ground floor
has dado rail, picture rail, and egg-and-dart cornice with
Greek key pattern to the ceiling; cast-iron grate and
chimneypiece in the Adam style; the wall of a smaller, linked
room to the rear is curved at its north-east corner with a
fitted corner cupboard facing, with entablature of c.1800. The
right-hand front room on the first floor has a Neo-classical
cast-iron grate with a bolection-moulded chimneypiece.
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3194484507

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569582

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)