Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3083SW BALFE STREET 635-1/62/53 (West side) 09/05/75 Nos.19-35 (Odd) (Formerly Listed as: BALFE STREET Nos.5-17, 17A, 19-35 (Odd))

GV II

Terraced houses. c.1847. Built by George Crane. Brown brick set in Flemish bond with dressings of gauged yellow brick and stucco, roofs obscured by parapet. Three storeys over basement, two windows each except for no 19 which has four windows. Flat-arched entrance framed by pilasters and entablature, overlight, panelled door of original design; all windows flat-arched with heads of gauged yellow brick, that to the ground floor set back under a round arch of gauged yellow brick; stucco sill band to first-floor windows, each of which is set back under a similar round arch; stucco cornice and blocking course; the whole terrace much rebuilt, particularly nos 27-29. No 35 has a late C20 shop or office front to ground floor, curved chamfer to corner, and flat-arched entrance in right-hand return in Railway Street with two flat-arched windows above, both blank. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3042583189

External Links

• Wikidata Q26570277

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