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1-17, Thornhill Crescent

A Grade II Listed Building in Islington, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5413 / 51°32'28"N

Longitude: -0.1161 / 0°6'57"W

OS Eastings: 530742

OS Northings: 184170

OS Grid: TQ307841

Mapcode National: GBR L1.2N

Mapcode Global: VHGQS.XJZ9

Plus Code: 9C3XGVRM+GH

Entry Name: 1-17, Thornhill Crescent

Listing Date: 29 September 1972

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1209587

English Heritage Legacy ID: 369372

ID on this website: 101209587

Location: Barnsbury, Islington, London, N1

County: London

District: Islington

Electoral Ward/Division: Caledonian

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Islington

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Andrew Barnsbury

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


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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