16-24, HIGHBURY PLACE

The terrace of houses at 16-24 Highbury Place was built between 1773 and 1774 and developed and designed by John Spiller. The buildings are constructed of brick and stucco with slate roofs. They are three storeys high, with a basement and some houses feature dormers in the attic, each house originally having three windows. Steps lead to a round-arched entrance, set back and defined by a round arch of gauged brick with a keystone and impost blocks. All windows have flat arches with heads of gauged brick, with a stucco sill band to the first floor and a band of plain brick to the parapet. Number 17 retains some original sash windows. Numbers 18-20 lack a basement and have a 20th-century reproduction front facade; number 21 features decorative glazing to the fanlight and a panelled door of original design; and number 22 has a fine early 19th-century panelled door. Number 24 includes some original sashes, a two-storey side wing, and an added enclosed wooden Doric porch with a canted oriel above. To the left is a former coach house range linked to that of number 25. Cast-iron railings with pinched spike and acorn finials are present at numbers 16-17 and 21-24, with number 16 having an overthrow lamp-holder. Numbers 18, 19 and 20 were additionally listed on 29th September 1972.