Decorating Duncan Terrace

Duncan Terrace is one of the finest early nineteenth-century streets in Islington, running north from City Road alongside the former New River Head gardens, which now form an attractive linear garden between Duncan Terrace and Colebrooke Row. The street comprises an elegant and continuous run of three-storey-plus-basement late Georgian and Regency brick terraces, with typical London stock brick facades, iron railings and semi-circular fanlights above six-panelled front doors. The adjoining garden adds to the street's exceptional amenity and it is a key element of the Islington New River Conservation Area.

The exposed London stock brick facades of Duncan Terrace are not painted but require careful attention to pointing and brick cleaning; interior decorating work typically involves restoring fine Regency plasterwork details including reeded cornices, arch mouldings and original fireplaces.