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

• Wikidata Q26570192

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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