Byron House

Byron House, 13, North Road, Hornsey, London, N6 4BD

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Overview

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 April 2026 to amend group sentence in description and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 2887
40/197

Highgate
NORTH ROAD N6 (west side)
No 13 (Byron House)

19.3.51.

GV
II*
Early C18 house with early C19 stuccoed front of three storeys, three windows. Banded rusticated ground floor to first floor band. Second floor string supported on side pilasters of first floor windows. Mutule cornice and parapet. High pitched hipped tiled roof. Replaced sashes with glazing bars, those on second floor in moulded architrave six-panel door, top glazed, in rusticated surround forming voussoirs with mask on key block. Doorcase with attached Ionic columns, pulvinated frieze and modillioned cornice.

Inside complete original panelling and two original marble fireplaces. Original staircase with cut string and carved tread ends, spiral balusters two to a tread on lower flight and three above. Original floor boards. Later elliptical arch on fluted columns in hall.

No 11A, Nos 13 and 15, Nos 17, 17A and 19 (The Sycamores) and No 23 form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ2827587542
Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1358887
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1951
List Entry Name:
Byron House
Statutory Address:
Byron House, 13, North Road, Hornsey, London, N6 4BD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1358887
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1951
List Entry Name:
Byron House
Statutory Address 1:
Byron House, 13, North Road, Hornsey, London, N6 4BD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Byron House, 13, North Road, Hornsey, London, N6 4BD

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Haringey (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 28271 87543

Summary

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 April 2026 to amend group sentence in description and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 2887
40/197

Highgate
NORTH ROAD N6 (west side)
No 13 (Byron House)

19.3.51.

GV
II*
Early C18 house with early C19 stuccoed front of three storeys, three windows. Banded rusticated ground floor to first floor band. Second floor string supported on side pilasters of first floor windows. Mutule cornice and parapet. High pitched hipped tiled roof. Replaced sashes with glazing bars, those on second floor in moulded architrave six-panel door, top glazed, in rusticated surround forming voussoirs with mask on key block. Doorcase with attached Ionic columns, pulvinated frieze and modillioned cornice.

Inside complete original panelling and two original marble fireplaces. Original staircase with cut string and carved tread ends, spiral balusters two to a tread on lower flight and three above. Original floor boards. Later elliptical arch on fluted columns in hall.

No 11A, Nos 13 and 15, Nos 17, 17A and 19 (The Sycamores) and No 23 form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ2827587542

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 April 2026 to amend group sentence in description and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 2887
40/197

Highgate
NORTH ROAD N6 (west side)
No 13 (Byron House)

19.3.51.

GV
II*
Early C18 house with early C19 stuccoed front of three storeys, three windows. Banded rusticated ground floor to first floor band. Second floor string supported on side pilasters of first floor windows. Mutule cornice and parapet. High pitched hipped tiled roof. Replaced sashes with glazing bars, those on second floor in moulded architrave six-panel door, top glazed, in rusticated surround forming voussoirs with mask on key block. Doorcase with attached Ionic columns, pulvinated frieze and modillioned cornice.

Inside complete original panelling and two original marble fireplaces. Original staircase with cut string and carved tread ends, spiral balusters two to a tread on lower flight and three above. Original floor boards. Later elliptical arch on fluted columns in hall.

No 11A, Nos 13 and 15, Nos 17, 17A and 19 (The Sycamores) and No 23 form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ2827587542

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
201458
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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