Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183SW BARNSBURY STREET
635-1/52/73 (North side)
29/09/72 The Draper's Arms public house

GV II

Public house. c.1830. Stucco, roof of slate. Three storeys
over basement, five windows. Ground floor decorated with
banded rustication. Two flat-arched entrances at either end of
facade, one narrower to centre; two flat-arched windows
beteeen them, all with engraved glass of uncertain date and
origin; fascia with console stops at either end with lion
heads; all windows flat-arched, those to the first floor of
piano nobile proportions with pilasters and cornice and
round-arched archivolts, the tympana left plain; the two outer
windows are broader and flanked by giant Doric pilasters, the
three inner windows also flanked by such pilasters, and there
are pilasters to the angles of this front, all carried up to a
moulded parapet, for the second floor is slightly set back,
with plain eared architraves to the windows; eaves cornice;
hipped roof; corniced side stacks. The interior contains a bar
front and cornice to the front room both of which may have
been in the pub in the C19.

Listing NGR: TQ3127484098

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570177

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living