Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3184NE HIGHBURY CRESCENT
635-1/46/452 (South West side)
Nos.7 AND 8

GV II

Semi-detached houses. c.1848-9. Developed by James Wagstaffe
and James Goodbody and probably designed by Wagstaffe. Brick,
stucco and roofs of slate. Three storeys over half-basement,
four windows each. Each house is four bays wide, stepped back
between the second and third bays and again between third and
fourth. Basement and ground floor stuccoed and decorated with
banded rustication; steps up to flat-arched entrance with
overlight, set back under a Greek Doric porch in the outermost
bay, the columns of no 7 no longer fluted. All windows
flat-arched; first-floor windows have stucco architraves with
console and cornice to inner two, console and pediment to
third, architrave simply to fourth. Second floor has simple
architraves. Sashes of original design throughout, those to
the ground floor with margin lights. Boxed eaves with
brackets. Hipped roof. Third window on ground floor of no 8
has balcony on brackets with cast-iron window-guard. The outer
wings of both houses have been raised almost to eaves level at
the rear.
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3151184897

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585560

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)