Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3184SW BARNSBURY SQUARE
635-1/52/65 (West side)
29/09/72 No.15
Mountford House
(Formerly Listed as:
BARNSBURY SQUARE
No.15
Mica House)

GV II

House; now offices. 1830-1835 with massive C20 side and rear
additions for former factory. Brick beneath banded stucco
ground floor and stucco upper floors; Welsh-slate hipped roof
with projecting bracketed eaves, centre and end-wall brick
stacks. Double-fronted detached villa. Centre-hall entrance
plan. Neo-classical style. Two-storeys, attic and basement;
5-window range. Steps rise to round-arched, architraved
doorway with pair of panelled doors and radial fanlight.
Round-arched 6/6 sashes in arched recesses. Ground-floor with
one sash to either side of entrance. 1st-floor sashes with
archivolts and shell motif to typana; sashes linked by moulded
impost string. Attic storey with 5 horizontal sliding sashes
flanked by bracketed consoles. Left return also stucco but
with brown stock-brick banded detailing. Double-fronted;
3-window range. Steps rise to round-arched architraved doorway
with panelled door and C20 fanlight. C20 sashes; C20 1st floor
brick storey-band.
History: Mountfort House was built on the site of a moat in
the early 1830s. Long believed to have been site of a Roman
praetorim within an entrenchment; some historians thought it
marked the camp of Suetonius Paulinus prior to his defeat of
Queen Boadicea at Battle Bridge. This myth has no
archaeological foundation and the moat was almost certainly a
survival of a farm of Barnsbury Manor.
(M. Cosh: An historical walk through BARNSBURY: Islington:
1981-: 21-23).

Listing NGR: TQ3104984231

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570192

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair