Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3284SW CANONBURY STREET
635-1/54/197 (North East side)
29/09/72 No.32
Marquess Tavern PH
(Formerly Listed as:
CANONBURY STREET
No.32
The Marquess of Granby public house)

GV II

Public house. c.1854. Developed by James Wagstaffe. Yellow
brick, stucco, roof obscured by parapets. Three storeys, three
window-range to each street front; the plan exploits the
corner site with the main front to Canonbury Street flat, and
the sides, to Douglas Road and Arran Walk, are each angled in
plan to give two convex facets. Ground floor decorated with
stucco and chamfered rustication; round-arched openings, the
first in Douglas Road blank, the middle one in Canonbury
Street the entrance, and the middle one in Arran Walk blank.
Upper storeys have giant order of Corinthian pilasters.
First-floor windows have moulded stucco architraves and
alternating triangular and segmental pediments; second-floor
windows have moulded stucco architraves; the first and
second-floor windows to Douglas Road, and to the first two
bays in Arran Walk, are blank. Entablature with 'MARQUESS
TAVERN' in sunk lettering to the frieze on each of the three
sides; modillion cornice, parapet with blank balustrade.
Single-storey wing to the rear in Douglas Road with blank
arcading and stucco scored as ashlar to north-west side,
cornice and blocking course.
The interior preserves a horseshoe bar counter and deal
panelling to the dado, both of the second half of the C19 if
not original; also, in the rear wing, Corinthian pilasters and
entablature, moulded ribs to covered roof and lantern (the
lantern now obscured), and mirrors with elaborate architraves
to all four walls: these features all probably of late C19
date.
(Information from Robert Thorne; Historians' file, English
Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3217784417

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Marquess Tavern Public House official website
• Wikidata Q26569367

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