1-17, THORNHILL CRESCENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209587
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: 1-17, THORNHILL CRESCENT
Statutory Address:: 1-17, THORNHILL CRESCENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209587
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: 1-17, THORNHILL CRESCENT
Statutory Address 1:: 1-17, THORNHILL 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:: 1-17, THORNHILL 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 30742 84170

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3084SE THORNHILL CRESCENT 635-1/51/846 (North West side) 29/09/72 Nos.1-17 (Consecutive)

GV II

17 terraced houses. Forming symmetrical crescent with irregular blocks. 1846-52. Brown and yellow stock brick set in Flemish bond; stucco basement, ground floor and cornice. Pitched slated roofs and party-wall stacks. Sidehall entrance with staircase. 3 storeys, basement and some with attics, 2 windows each. Banded stucco ground floor with segmental arched sashes, some margin lights. To left, low steps rise to square-headed doorway; panelled door flanked by plain pilasters carrying corniced-head; rectangular overlight with simple glazing bars beneath rosette frieze and console bracketed cornice. Nos. 1 and 17 have side entrances with stucco portico. Upper floor of brick with stucco sill band beneath first floor full-length, square-headed 3-light sashes surmounted by a single pediment alternating with recessed blocks of architraved sashes. Cast-iron window guards of palmette and rosette motifs. 2nd floor with architraved square-headed sashes with lugged apron. Stucco cornices; nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 16 with blocking courses. Some attics with dormer. (Historians File-London Division: ISL/5).

Listing NGR: TQ3074284170

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Legacy System number:: 369372
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.