7 AND 8, HIGHBURY CRESCENT
7 AND 8, HIGHBURY CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298030
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 7 AND 8, HIGHBURY CRESCENT
- Statutory Address:
- 7 AND 8, HIGHBURY CRESCENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298030
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 7 AND 8, HIGHBURY CRESCENT
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7 AND 8, HIGHBURY CRESCENT
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:
- 7 AND 8, 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 31511 84897
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3184NE HIGHBURY CRESCENT 635-1/46/452 (South West side) Nos.7 AND 8
GV II
Semi-detached houses. c.1848-9. Developed by James Wagstaffe and James Goodbody and probably designed by Wagstaffe. Brick, stucco and roofs of slate. Three storeys over half-basement, four windows each. Each house is four bays wide, stepped back between the second and third bays and again between third and fourth. Basement and ground floor stuccoed and decorated with banded rustication; steps up to flat-arched entrance with overlight, set back under a Greek Doric porch in the outermost bay, the columns of no 7 no longer fluted. All windows flat-arched; first-floor windows have stucco architraves with console and cornice to inner two, console and pediment to third, architrave simply to fourth. Second floor has simple architraves. Sashes of original design throughout, those to the ground floor with margin lights. Boxed eaves with brackets. Hipped roof. Third window on ground floor of no 8 has balcony on brackets with cast-iron window-guard. The outer wings of both houses have been raised almost to eaves level at the rear. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).
Listing NGR: TQ3151184897
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368962
- 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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