Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3281SE SEKFORDE STREET
635-1/74/759 (West side)
29/12/50 Nos.17 AND 18
and attached railings

GV II

Terraced houses. c.1835. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond,
stucco, roofs obscured by parapet. Three storeys over
basement, three windows each, double-fronted. All openings
with gauged brick heads. Round-arched entrance, the doorcase
having cornice, moulded archivolt and fanlight with decorative
glazing, no 18 having panelled door of original design.
Ground-floor windows round-arched; sill band to first floor;
upper windows flat-arched, those to first floor set back under
round arches of gauged brick linked by springing bands. Sashes
of original design including intersecting glazing bars to
ground floor, to nos 17 (ground floor) and 18 (ground and
first floors). Parapet has brickwork in emulation of triglyphs
and guttae. Upper storeys apparently rebuilt. Cast-iron
railings to area.
(Eric Willatts: Streets with a story. The book of Islington:
London: 1986-).

Listing NGR: TQ3158482374

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490321

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Recommended Books

• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings