Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Bulls on Cavendish
Does anyone know why a section of houses on the north side of Cavendish has plaster bulls on the front between the ground and first floors? Was the area which is now Cavendish part of a cattle paddock belonging to Harringay House or were plaster bulls simply on sale at some point 100 or so years ago?
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Permalink Reply by Gerry N on
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Very Interesting. I have looked at them on Google maps. The houses all the way up to the New River seem to be much more "ornate" than usual. Not only with the decorative double bulls' heads but also swags of fruit or flowers & Tudor Rose emblems etc Note also that the all window lintels and doorways are far more decorated than usual. Overall it seems to give a rather french look to the houses ?- to me anyway!
The meaning of the emblems themselves, I can not help you with.
Perhaps sales were slow when building was in progress and the developer/builder wanted to make his houses look better than the average ladder house. The decorated lintels would have to be planned during building. The identical bull panels on all houses: perhaps signify that the builder had a cast for the coade stone and used the same cast on every house. These could have been added either during or just after building ? Some seem to have been removed on some houses, without a trace ?
If he had ordered them from a "catalogue" each house would certainly be different ?
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