Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3284SW ESSEX ROAD 635-1/54/383 (South East side) 29/09/72 Nos.246-290 (Even) Annette Crescent and attached railings

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Terraced houses. Early to mid-C19. Brick covered with stucco, most roofs obscured by parapet, others of Welsh and artificial slate. Generally three storeys over basement, one window each. The houses form a symmetrical group, with three houses at each end having fronts parallel to Essex Road, the rest forming a shallow crescent with the middle three, nos 266-70, set forward as a centrepiece. Ground floor has banded rustication. All ground-floor openings round-arched and set within a recessed round-arched panel of plain stucco; steps up to entrance with simple doorcase, fanlight, some with decorative glazing, and panelled doors; except no. 246, which has side entrance in Rotherfield Street and now has a simple round-arched entrance, simple doorcase, fanlight and panelled door, and no. 290 which has a round-arched entrance with fanlight in a single-storey porch. Ground-floor windows have 2/8 sashes for the most part. Storey band between ground and first floors, upper storeys scored as ashlar. First- and second-floor windows flat-arched and set in recessed segmental-arched panels of plain stucco; shallow balconies to first-floor windows, mostly replacement; moulded sill band, cornice and blocking course. Dormers in mansard roof to nos 252-8 and 286-90. Railings to areas and flanking entrance steps with spearhead, urn, and ball-and-disc finials to nos 246-64, 280-90, the rest replaced in whole or part.

Listing NGR: TQ3237284288

External Links

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)