Description

ISLINGTON

TQ2887SE HORNSEY LANE 635-1/5/510 (South side) 20/09/54 No.8 and attached railings

GV II

Terraced house. Mid-C18. Plum brick with red brick dressings, roof obscured by parapet. Three storeys over basement, three-window range. Flat-arched entrance, the doorcase having panelled reveals, cornice, decorative fanlight and panelled door of original design; wood prostyle porch with palm-leaf capitals, vases and arabesques to frieze and dentil cornice. All original windows with heads of gauged red brick; two narrow windows flanking the porch and a single-storey C19 canted bay window to ground floor; first floor has two Palladian windows to either side with narrow flat-arched window between, perhaps reflecting original arrangement of two narrower houses thrown into one; likewise to second floor: lunette windows with narrow flat-arched window between and one flat-arched window inserted; recessed unwindowed wing to right. Parapet; side stacks. Railings to basement steps with spearhead finials.

Listing NGR: TQ2892487229

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  For the Record
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)