The Sycamores
The Sycamores, 17, 17A and 19, North Road, Hornsey, London, N6 4BD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1079194
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Sycamores
- Statutory Address:
- The Sycamores, 17, 17A and 19, North Road, Hornsey, London, N6 4BD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1079194
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Sycamores
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Sycamores, 17, 17A and 19, North Road, Hornsey, London, N6 4BD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Sycamores, 17, 17A and 19, North Road, Hornsey, London, N6 4BD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Haringey (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 28283 87560
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 April 2026 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
TQ 2887
40/200
Highgate
NORTH ROAD N6 (west side)
Nos 17, 17A and 19, The Sycamores)
(Fpormerly listed as Nos 17 to 21 (odd) (The Sycamores))
19.3.51.
GV
II*
Nos 17 and 17A: early C18 building of brown brick with red brick dressings and tiled roof. Two storeys and attic, three windows each. Small central gables with attic windows. Segment-headed sash windows with glazing bars in exposed box frames. Some windows of No 17A blocked. Six-panel doors, top glazed. No 17 has G.L.C. blue plaque commemorating residence here of A.E. Housman, during which he wrote "A Shropshire Lad".
No 19: early C18 house of brown brick with red brick dressings. Two storeys and attic, five windows; and slightly projecting two storey, one window north addition. High pitched tiled roof with three segment-headed dormers. Stone coped parapet. Segment-headed sash windows with glazing bars in exposed moulded frames. Door of eight-fielded panels, top glazed, in rusticated jambs. Doric doorcase has fluted pilasters, triglyph frieze and modillioned cornice with segmental pediment.
No llA, Nos 13 and 15, Nos 17, 17A and 19, The Sycamores and No 23 form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ2828687573
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 201461
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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