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Latitude: 51.5476 / 51°32'51"N
Longitude: -0.1048 / 0°6'17"W
OS Eastings: 531511
OS Northings: 184897
OS Grid: TQ315848
Mapcode National: GBR GK.28P
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.4CGF
Plus Code: 9C3XGVXW+33
Entry Name: 7 and 8, Highbury Crescent
Listing Date: 30 September 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1298030
English Heritage Legacy ID: 368962
ID on this website: 101298030
Location: Canonbury, Islington, London, N5
County: London
District: Islington
Electoral Ward/Division: Highbury East
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Islington
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Mary Magdelene and St David Holloway
Church of England Diocese: London
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ISLINGTON
TQ3184NE HIGHBURY CRESCENT
635-1/46/452 (South West side)
Nos.7 AND 8
GV II
Semi-detached houses. c.1848-9. Developed by James Wagstaffe
and James Goodbody and probably designed by Wagstaffe. Brick,
stucco and roofs of slate. Three storeys over half-basement,
four windows each. Each house is four bays wide, stepped back
between the second and third bays and again between third and
fourth. Basement and ground floor stuccoed and decorated with
banded rustication; steps up to flat-arched entrance with
overlight, set back under a Greek Doric porch in the outermost
bay, the columns of no 7 no longer fluted. All windows
flat-arched; first-floor windows have stucco architraves with
console and cornice to inner two, console and pediment to
third, architrave simply to fourth. Second floor has simple
architraves. Sashes of original design throughout, those to
the ground floor with margin lights. Boxed eaves with
brackets. Hipped roof. Third window on ground floor of no 8
has balcony on brackets with cast-iron window-guard. The outer
wings of both houses have been raised almost to eaves level at
the rear.
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).
Listing NGR: TQ3151184897
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