Numbers 17, 19 And 21 And Attached Railings

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TQ2887SE HIGHGATE HIGH STREET 798-1/6/842 (South side) 10/06/54 Nos.17, 19 AND 21 and attached railings

GV II*

3 terraced houses, No.17 with later shop. 1733. Built by Robert Harrison. Brown brick with red brick dressings, stuccoed semi-basements. Tiled roofs with later dormers. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attics and semi-basements. No.17, 4 windows (those over entrance blind); Nos 19 & 21, 3 windows (those over entrances blind). Wooden doorcases with shaped brackets and hoods to entrances approached by steep steps with attached wrought-iron railings. Architraved doorways with fanlights; Nos 17 & 19, panelled doors, No.21, half glazed panelled door. No.17 has later C19 wooden shopfront to left of door with canted bay window and glazed shopdoor flanked by pilasters and fluted brackets. Plain brick bands at 1st and 2nd floor levels. Gauged red brick segmental arches to flush sashes with exposed boxing. Brick cornice below parapet. INTERIORS: not inspected but interior of No.21 noted to retain original staircase. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings to areas. On the wall of No.17 a stone tablet inscribed L/SM/1745 referring to Harrison's nieces Sarah and Mary Lane who inherited the estate. (Survey of London: Vol. XVII, The Village of Highgate, Parish of St Pancras, part I: London: -1936: 19-21).

Listing NGR: TQ2852387360