23, 23A, 24 and 25 Church Crescent and associated fences and gate piers

This is a set of two pairs of semi-detached houses, built in 1981-1984 by Colquhoun and Miller for the London Borough of Hackney. The houses occupy a wedge-shaped site, designed to frame the view of the Church of St John of Jerusalem, a designated Grade II* listed building.

The houses are constructed of concrete block cavity walls which have a brick plinth and are finished with stucco above. The windows have powder-coated aluminium frames and the roof is covered with concrete tiles. The windows to number 25 have been replaced with double-glazed units.

Each pair of houses is arranged as a traditional, two-handed design, with a side entrance leading to a hall and staircase. The ground floor includes a kitchen to the front and a living room to the rear. The first floor contains a bathroom and a bedroom, while the two upper floors each feature two bedrooms. One of the second-floor bedrooms has projecting alcoves with side windows, and the front room has a balcony which has since been glazed.

The exterior has a symmetrical design, with white rendered walls and aluminium-framed windows above a low brick plinth. Lines are incised into the render, resembling 19th-century incised stucco or 20th-century panel construction. The roofs are shallow-hipped, with deep eaves. The front elevation features four bays, with small side windows in the projecting central bays, and balconies set under the eaves on the upper floors. Porthole windows are found in the flanking second-floor bays. The side elevations have a central entrance with a porch supported by cylindrical corbels and flanking ground-floor windows. A single-storey extension was added to the side elevation of number 25 in the later 20th century. A continuous vertical strip window, comprising a grid of square panes, illuminates the staircases and landings. The rear elevations feature wide outer bays that project forward, and upper windows with square or horizontal proportions.

Internally, the houses have plastered and painted walls, with wooden door frames, flush doors, and skirting. The staircases have solid wooden balustrades.

The front and dividing fences are made of square-gridded metalwork supported by rendered masonry gate posts.