Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182SE SEKFORDE STREET 635-1/74/758 (West side) 29/09/72 Nos.8-14 (Consecutive) and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: SEKFORDE STREET Nos.8-13 (Consecutive))

GV II

Terraced houses. 1835-40. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roof obscured by parapet. Three storeys over basement, nos 8-10, 12 and 14 two windows each, nos 11 and 13 three windows each, no 11A apparently of one-window range. Basement and ground floor of nos 11-12 stuccoed, the ground floor decorated with banded rustication; nos 13-14 stuccoed all over. Round-arched entrances to nos 8-10 with fluted quarter columns, cornice, fanlight and panelled door of original design; nos 11, 11A and 12 have engaged Roman Doric columns, cornice and fanlight, no 11 having a panelled door of original design, no 11A replacement columns of metal. No 13 has fluted quarter columns and fanlight, and no 14 has a single-storey extension to ground floor, with two round-arched entrances with fanlights. Carriage entrance to no 13. Ground-floor windows round-arched except one to no 14 is a Venetian window. Stucco storey band. All upper windows flat-arched except one round-arched window and one canted bay to no 14; those to first floor set back under round arches of gauged brick linked by a brick springing band; cast-iron balconies to nos 8 and 11. Parapet has brickwork patterned in emulation of triglyphs and guttae to nos 8-12. Cast-iron railings to area of nos 8-10. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division; Eric Willatts: Streets with a story. The book of Islington: London: 1986-).

Listing NGR: TQ3157682280

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas