Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3181NE COWCROSS STREET
635-1/77/344 (North side)
Nos.9-13 (Consecutive)

GV II

Workshops or warehouse. 1878. Yellow brick set in Flemish
bond, stone, dressings of red and blue brick. Four (possibly
five) storeys, five-window range. As the large, flat-arched
windows to the first, second and third floors are separated
horizontally only by narrow bands of stone, the elevation to
Cowcross Street reads as a grid of windows arranged in five
tall bays with pointed arches; and there are decorative metal
bosses to all floors and all bays, perhaps related to metal
framing in the building. The ground floor has pilasters of
blue and red brick; works entrance to either end, flat-arched
to the left and segmental-arched to the right, with gauged
brick heads; the elaborate decorative tiled frieze to the
middle bays remains only in one bay. The upper floors are
divided vertically by piers of yellow brick with pilasters of
red brick superimposed and running up to foliage capitals at
third floor level; moulded stone lintels to each floor;
pointed arch to 'fourth' floor with voussoirs of alternating
red and yellow brick and hoodmould; terracotta roundels in
spandrels; parapet.
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3172981854

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490144

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