Houses in Trinity Church Square
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Houses in Trinity Church Square
Houses in Trinity Church Square
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SC_PHL_01_377_F2893 (Collage 116403)
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London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
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Looking north-west at the front elevations of terraced houses at 51-67 (right to left, consecutive) on the north side Trinity Church Square (Trinity Square until the 1930s and part of Trinity Street until the 1920s), Newington. It is a three-storey-plus-attic-and-basement terrace in late Georgian style with neo-classical features at numbers. The houses on the north side of the square were completed in the late 1820s as part of the development by William Chadwick. Differences in detailing are seen on numbers 51-53 and 60-62 compared to the other houses: the stucco on the ground floor walls is not rusticated, the ground-floor windows have slightly lower sills, the first-floor windows are in round arched insets, neither the first nor second-floor windows are surrounded by moulded stucco architraves, and the front doors have bracketed hoods. A terrace of three houses had been built c1815 in Great Suffolk Street East and was incorporated into the estate in what was renamed Trinity Street as 60-62 Trinity Square, and numbers 51-53 were styled to mirror them to make the north terrace of the square symmetrical. On the right is the site of number 50 that along with numbers 48 and 49 was destroyed by enemy action on 10 May 1941. A steel beam is secured to the corner of number 51 with a retaining tie at second-floor level to the rear of the house. The cornice of numbers 54-59 is missing. Numbers 51 and 52 have been laterally converted to create four flats - the front door of number 51 has been replaced with a window matching the other ground-floor windows, the door hood is missing, and an iron balustrade extended across the step at the pavement curtilage. Iron balustrades guard areas. Victorian gas street lamp standards on the right and a tree on the left have painted white stripes from the World War II blackout. The top of a pillar box is in the bottom left corner. The roads are paved with wooden blocks surfaced with tar, with extensive areas where the tar has worn away. Numbers 48-50 were rebuilt to the original design in 1954. The front door of number 51 was restored, the doorhood replaced, and the obstructing balustrade removed. A cornice to the original design was restored to numbers 54-59. The Victorian street lamps were replaced with lamps on concrete columns, and these in turn replaced with reproduction Victorian lamp standards. The houses are Grade II listed, including the balustrades; listing number 1385997. The square is within the Trinity Village Conservation Area.
Looking north-west at the front elevations of terraced houses at 51-67 (right to left, consecutive) on the north side Trinity Church Square (Trinity Square until the 1930s and part of Trinity Street until the 1920s), Newington. It is a three-storey-plus-attic-and-basement terrace in late Georgian style with neo-classical features at numbers. The houses on the north side of the square were completed in the late 1820s as part of the development by William Chadwick. Differences in detailing are seen on numbers 51-53 and 60-62 compared to the other houses: the stucco on the ground floor walls is not rusticated, the ground-floor windows have slightly lower sills, the first-floor windows are in round arched insets, neither the first nor second-floor windows are surrounded by moulded stucco architraves, and the front doors have bracketed hoods. A terrace of three houses had been built c1815 in Great Suffolk Street East and was incorporated into the estate in what was renamed Trinity Street as 60-62 Trinity Square, and numbers 51-53 were styled to mirror them to make the north terrace of the square symmetrical. On the right is the site of number 50 that along with numbers 48 and 49 was destroyed by enemy action on 10 May 1941. A steel beam is secured to the corner of number 51 with a retaining tie at second-floor level to the rear of the house. The cornice of numbers 54-59 is missing. Numbers 51 and 52 have been laterally converted to create four flats - the front door of number 51 has been replaced with a window matching the other ground-floor windows, the door hood is missing, and an iron balustrade extended across the step at the pavement curtilage. Iron balustrades guard areas. Victorian gas street lamp standards on the right and a tree on the left have painted white stripes from the World War II blackout. The top of a pillar box is in the bottom left corner. The roads are paved with wooden blocks surfaced with tar, with extensive areas where the tar has worn away. Numbers 48-50 were rebuilt to the original design in 1954. The front door of number 51 was restored, the doorhood replaced, and the obstructing balustrade removed. A cornice to the original design was restored to numbers 54-59. The Victorian street lamps were replaced with lamps on concrete columns, and these in turn replaced with reproduction Victorian lamp standards. The houses are Grade II listed, including the balustrades; listing number 1385997. The square is within the Trinity Village Conservation Area.
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