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

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings