Description

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TQ3182SE
635-1/74/764

ISLINGTON
SEKFORDE STREET (East side)
No.34

(Formerly listed as No.34, The Sekforde Arms public house)

29/09/72

GV
II
Former public house. 1829-31 with early C20 ground-floor pub frontage. Brown brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, and tiles to pub frontage, roof obscured by parapet.

Three storeys above basement, two-window range to semi-circular bay to corner, three-window range to Sekforde Street. Ground floor has early C20 pub frontage of buff and dark brown tilework; upper storeys to Sekforde Street and bay stuccoed with flat-arched windows, those to first floor set back under round arches linked by springing bands; string below parapet.

INTERIOR: retains panelled dado possibly of early C19 date to back room from which rises early C19 staircase with open string, stick balusters and acorn finial to newel post; panelled dado to staircase and early-to-mid-C19 fireplace in upstairs front room.

(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3159982300

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Sekforde official website
• Wikidata Q27080346

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  For the Record
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback