Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3181NE ST JOHN STREET
635-1/77/779 (East side)
No.16

GV II

Industrial or commercial building. Late C19. Brick now painted
set in Flemish bond with stucco dressings, roof obscured by
parapet. Four storeys over basement, five-window range. Ground
floor of four bays, altered, including a slightly broader
works entry to right; fascia and cornice. Upper windows all
flat-arched with moulded stucco architraves, those to the
first floor having the conceit of architraves moulded as if to
cross above the upper sash though they do not; overlight
flanked by scrolled consoles supporting cornice; monogrammed
cartouche above central window; moulded stucco storey band
with paired consoles at either end; second and third floor
have three windows only with moulded stucco architraves, those
to the second floor having swags to inswept frieze and
cornice; Ionic pilasters flank second and third floors
supporting brackets to either side of plain frieze and
cornice; parapet with central ornate pedimented panel with
crossed keys in low relief; urns on pedestals to either end.

Listing NGR: TQ3181781851

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27080330

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)