Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183SE UPPER STREET
635-1/65/887 (South East side)
19/04/90 No.359
The Mall

GV II

Includes: The Mall ISLINGTON HIGH STREET.
Former electricity transformer station and tram depot, now
shops and restaurant. 1905-6 by the LCC Architect's
Department. Yellow brick set in English bond, stone dressings,
roof of Welsh slate. The surviving building is a shed with
entrances at either end. The elevation to Islington High
Street is divided into three bays by rusticated piers, the
rustication banded as throughout the building; the broad inner
piers are on either side of the central round-arched entrance
and are pierced by ground-floor and mezzanine flat-arched
windows, the outer piers are in pairs, flanking round-arched
windows with impost blocks; three flat-arched windows in each
of the side bays. Moulded stone cornice; brick parapet with
stone coping.
The elevation to Upper Street, though almost blank, is the
most important architecturally. Screen wall with rusticated
piers at either end, and two pavilions which form a
centrepiece with the intervening bay. Each pavilion contains a
niche, with rusticated brickwork to the sides and archivolt
and springing band of stone; in each niche a blank aedicule of
stone with simplified mouldings; three small windows between
the pavilions with flat arches and keystones of gauged brick,
the two northern windows obscured by new brickwork. The
moulded stone springing band runs the full length of the
building, connecting to the end entrances, and running
'behind' the flanking piers. Moulded stone cornice with
modillions over the pavilions; brick parapet with stone coping
to the centrepiece. Metal ventilators along the ridge of the
roof. The north and south elevations consist of a massive
round arch with broad rusticated pilasters and stone
archivolt; modillion cornice and parapet over.
Several features of the building, notably the pavilions to the
Upper Street front, blank walling and niches with aedicules,
were influenced by, and are a tribute to, Newgate Prison by
George Dance II, which was demolished in 1902.

Listing NGR: TQ3153783397

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585482

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