17 And 17A, Balfe Street

ISLINGTON

TQ3083SW BALFE STREET 635-1/62/52 (West side) 09/05/75 Nos.17 AND 17A (Formerly Listed as: BALFE STREET Nos.5-17, 17A, 19-35 (Odd))

GV II

No 17 a terraced house altered to commercial premises. Mid-C19. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roof obscured by parapet. Three storeys over basement, three window-range. Basement and ground floor decorated with banded rustication; segmental-arched entrance with architrave, keystone and panelled door of original design; flat-arched window to ground floor with bracketed sill, architrave and vestiges of ogee-patterned glazing bars; deep fascia with bracketed stops; upper windows flat-arched with architraves now much simplified and central pediment to first floor missing; 6/6 sashes of original design; stuccoed entablature and blocking course. To the right of no 17 is a stuccoed, basket-arched carriage entrance, numbered 17A, with the inscription 'WORKS & MILLS' and the date 1846; fluted impost blocks; the two storeys over the arch now form part of nos 19-35 Balfe Street (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ3042483169