Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NE UPPER STREET 635-1/59/873 (West side) No.133

II

Former school building, now shops, offices and garage. Early C19. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roof obscured by parapet to front building, roof of slate to rear. Four storeys, five-window range, double-fronted. Ground-floor shop front in stucco with central round-arched entrance flanked by pilasters with consoles, and round-arched archivolt between, the doorcase with decorative glazing to the fanlight; mid-to-late C19 fascia surives with consoles and fascia stops with decorative wrought-iron finials; all upper windows flat-arched with gauged brick heads, except that the central first-floor window has moulded stucco architrave with cornice on consoles, and above this a moulded stucco panel has had a window introduced into it; stucco sill band to second-floor windows, moulded stucco cornice; end stacks; original rainwater heads on right-hand return. Three-storey wing to rear with apsidal ends and five-window range to north side; C20 garage openings to ground floor, first-floor windows round-arched and rebuilt in replica, rebuilt parapet; late C20 mansard roof with dormers; single-storey wing of uncertain date in the angle of the front and rear buildings. INTERIOR: : vestibule and entrance hall have pilasters carrying round arches, the ceiling cross-vaulted with modelled doves of peace in the side spandrels and a boss in the form of a modelled wreath; in the former schoolroom on the first floor of the rear building, is a gallery of late C20 construction, replacing an earlier one.

Listing NGR: TQ3168083952

External Links

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