Christchurch Vicarage
CHRISTCHURCH VICARAGE, 157, HIGHBURY GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195620
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Christchurch Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- CHRISTCHURCH VICARAGE, 157, HIGHBURY GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195620
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Christchurch Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRISTCHURCH VICARAGE, 157, HIGHBURY GROVE
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:
- CHRISTCHURCH VICARAGE, 157, HIGHBURY GROVE
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 31925 85417
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3185SE HIGHBURY GROVE 635-1/38/458 (West side) 29/09/72 No.157 Christchurch Vicarage
GV II
Detached house. 1875-6. Dressed Kentish ragstone with Bath stone dressings and roof of Welsh slate. Three storeys over basement, irregular fenestration. The front to Highbury Grove reads as two wings, one of three storeys, the other of two and set a little back, both under hipped roofs, and there is another, gabled wing to the west. Shallow gabled porch to Highbury Grove in the right-hand wing with pointed-arched entrance deeply recessed with panelled door and overlight; single-storey bay window to left-hand wing with flat-arched window of four lights with chamfered mullions and transoms; upper windows for the most part have mullions with chamfer stops; full dormer to right-hand wing; west wing entirely blank to north with coped gable and corniced stack to apex. (Eric Willatts: Streets with a story. The book of Islington: London: 1986-).
Listing NGR: TQ3192585417
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368968
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Willatts, E, Streets with a story The book of Islington London, (1986)
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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