1-4, HIGHBURY PLACE
1-4, HIGHBURY PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195631
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1-4, HIGHBURY PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 1-4, HIGHBURY PLACE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14854/01
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195631
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 1-4, HIGHBURY PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-4, HIGHBURY PLACE
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:
- 1-4, HIGHBURY PLACE
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 31650 84803
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3184NE HIGHBURY PLACE 635-1/46/488 (East side) 29/09/72 Nos.1-4 (Consecutive)
GV II
Terraced houses. 1773-4. Developed and designed by John Spiller. Brick, stucco and roofs of slate. Three storeys over basement, plus dormers. No 1 has a side entrance through a stuccoed Ionic porch distyle in antis, with panelled door and fanlight; there is a single-storey extension to the right with two tripartite sash windows under flat arches of gauged brick. Borough of Islington plaque commemorating Walter Sickert. No 2 has a late C19 commercial front in stucco and red brick. No 3 has original semi-circular arched recessed entrance with panelled door of original design and late C19/20 shopfront alongside. The ground floor of no 4 was altered in the late C19 in the Queen Anne style using rubbed brick and stone detailing. Stucco storey band between ground and first floor on nos 1-3. Upper windows flat-arched with gauged brick heads and some 6/6 sashes of original design; brick band to coped parapet; dormers in mansard roof; stacks to party walls. Area railings with pinched spike and acorn finials to nos 1, 3 and 4; no 2 has late C19 scrolled iron balustrade. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division; Eric Willatts: Streets with a story. The book of Islington: London: 1986-).
Listing NGR: TQ3165084803
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368999
- 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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