Description

ISLINGTON

TQ2986NE ST JOHN'S GROVE
635-1/13/804 (South East side)
29/09/72 Council Offices
(Formerly Listed as:
ST JOHNS GROVE
St John's National School Cottages)

GV II

Semi-detached cottages with school buildings to rear, now
premises for London Borough of Islington Social Services.
Mid-C19, but the school probably of a later date than the
cottages. The cottages of white brick set in Flemish bond with
dressings of stone; the school buildings of yellow and brown
brick; slate roofs. One and two storeys; the cottage of
two-window range to St John's Grove, the school buildings of
seven-window range to the east. The cottages in a Gothic style
with projecting gabled end bays to St John's Grove:
Tudor-arched entrance to side with canted single-storey bay
alongside; ground-floor windows flat-arched with rectilinear
tracery except innermost facing St John's Grove which has
three flat-arched lights with sashes; frieze over inner
ground-floor windows in St John's Grove lettered 'ST JOHN'S
NATIONAL SCHOOLS'; stone string to sills of first floor
windows which are flat-arched, of one, two and three lights
with trefoiled tracery, all in full dormers except those to
gabled bays; stacks to party wall with panelled chimneypots,
and to ridge.
The school building is in four parts: two-storey wing behind
the cottages with flat-arched studio windows to first floor; a
single-storey wing with pointed-arched windows in full dormers
and glazing bars in the form of Y-tracery; a gabled cross-wing
to the south with similar windows with Y-tracery; and a
shorter, parallel cross wing further south again; all gables
have billets to raking cornices.

Listing NGR: TQ2967786623

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490311

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)