11 AND 12, HIGHBURY CRESCENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195617
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: 11 AND 12, HIGHBURY CRESCENT
Statutory Address:: 11 AND 12, HIGHBURY CRESCENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195617
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: 11 AND 12, HIGHBURY CRESCENT
Statutory Address 1:: 11 AND 12, HIGHBURY CRESCENT

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 11 AND 12, HIGHBURY CRESCENT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Islington (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 31482 84961

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3184NW HIGHBURY CRESCENT 635-1/45/453 (South West side) Nos.11 AND 12

GV II

Semi-detached houses. 1848-50. Developed by James Goodbody and James Wagstaffe and probably designed by James Wagstaffe. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roof of slate. Three storeys over basement, three-window range, the fronts to Highbury Crescent set back twice. Basement and ground floor stuccoed. Steps up to porch in outer bay with Greek Doric columns, entablature and, in the case of no 12, balustrade above; doorcase has cornice and overlight. The innermost bay has a shallow bow window of three lights to basement and ground floor, with balustrade above; second bay has flat-arched window with moulded stucco architrave. First-floor windows are flat-arched with moulded stucco architrave and cornice and consoles to two inner bays, the innermost tripartite, and round-arched with moulded stucco architrave to outer bay. Both the outer bays have been raised beyond their original height; that to no 12 retains its original cornice. Third-floor windows to two inner bays are round-arched with moulded stucco architraves, grouped in threes to inner bays and twos to second bays; bracketed and boxed eaves; hipped roof with stacks to party walls and between second and outer bays. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3148284961

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Legacy System number:: 368963
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.