Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3083SW BALFE STREET
635-1/62/53 (West side)
09/05/75 Nos.19-35 (Odd)
(Formerly Listed as:
BALFE STREET
Nos.5-17, 17A, 19-35 (Odd))

GV II

Terraced houses. c.1847. Built by George Crane. Brown brick
set in Flemish bond with dressings of gauged yellow brick and
stucco, roofs obscured by parapet. Three storeys over
basement, two windows each except for no 19 which has four
windows. Flat-arched entrance framed by pilasters and
entablature, overlight, panelled door of original design; all
windows flat-arched with heads of gauged yellow brick, that to
the ground floor set back under a round arch of gauged yellow
brick; stucco sill band to first-floor windows, each of which
is set back under a similar round arch; stucco cornice and
blocking course; the whole terrace much rebuilt, particularly
nos 27-29. No 35 has a late C20 shop or office front to ground
floor, curved chamfer to corner, and flat-arched entrance in
right-hand return in Railway Street with two flat-arched
windows above, both blank.
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3042583189

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570277

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability