Newington Green | Roger Mears Architects

Rescuing the earliest surviving Grade I listed terrace in Islington, London

The earliest surviving terrace in London, this group of four Grade I listed houses was built in 1658. Three of them were saved from collapse by English Heritage in the 1970s, who carried out major structural repairs and subsequently sold them to our clients, with us as architects. At that stage, the houses, with temporary shop fronts at street level, were in derelict condition and a substantial part of the remaining original fabric was in need of repair. The only surviving original ground floor brickwork, around the door to a passage between the two middle houses, was used as the pattern for rebuilding the ground floor front elevations. We worked on three of these buildings, conserving what existed of the fabric and installing bathrooms and kitchens to turn them into three individual houses.