Numbers 1-2 And Attached Railings

ISLINGTON

TQ3185SE HIGHBURY TERRACE 635-1/38/494 (West side) 29/09/72 Nos.1-2 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: HIGHBURY TERRACE Nos.1-3 Highbury House)

GV II

Terraced houses. c.1789. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roof obscured by parapet. Two and three storeys over basement; each house has three windows to the inner, three-storey, part and three to a two-storey entrance wing. Round-arched entrance with cornice, sidelights, decorative fanlight and panelled door of original design: no 1 has impost bands decorated with palmette ornament and head keystone to gauged brick head; no 2 has a moulded stucco architrave with head keystone. All windows have gauged brick heads. Entrance wings have one round-arched window to ground floor flanked by round-arched niches; inner wings have round-arched windows set in a round-arched recess with moulded stucco springing bands; stucco sill band to first-floor windows, the outer three to no 2 having iron window-guards; parapet to entrance wings, and cornice of brick and stucco to inner wings, with rebuilt parapet above. Stacks to party wall and end stacks. Area railings with urn standards, spike finials and overthrow lampholder.

Listing NGR: TQ3165885230