Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3185SE HIGHBURY CRESCENT 635-1/38/454 (North West side) Nos.23 AND 24

GV II

Semi-detached houses, now offices. 1845-6. Developed by James Goodbody and James Wagstaffe, and probably designed by Wagstaffe. Brick, stucco and roof of slate. Two and three storeys over basement, three windows each, with a central blank window shared between the two. Half-basement and ground floor stuccoed, the ground floor with banded rustication, the whole width of the house articulated on the ground floor by pilasters with entablature, triglyph frieze and modillion cornice. Steps up to round-arched entrance with fanlight under enclosed Doric porches with antae, triglyph frieze and modillion cornice; ground-floor windows flat-arched; first-floor windows round-arched to central bays with Corinthian pilasters and archivolts, eared architraves to outer bays, simple cornice to central bays but composite modillion cornice to outer bays. Eared architraves to attic with some original sashes, broad stucco string course to parapet, simplified. Hipped roof, stack to party wall. The outer bay of no 24 has been raised to three storeys.

Listing NGR: TQ3157285169

External Links

• Wikidata Q26490191

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings