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Latitude: 51.5384 / 51°32'18"N
Longitude: -0.1027 / 0°6'9"W
OS Eastings: 531682
OS Northings: 183874
OS Grid: TQ316838
Mapcode National: GBR P2.3P
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.5LLH
Plus Code: 9C3XGVQW+9W
Entry Name: Post Office
Listing Date: 30 September 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1297985
English Heritage Legacy ID: 369401
ID on this website: 101297985
Location: Islington, London, N1
County: London
District: Islington
Electoral Ward/Division: St Mary's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Islington
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Mary Islington
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Post office
ISLINGTON
TQ3183NE UPPER STREET
635-1/59/872 (West side)
No.116
Post Office
GV II
Post Office. c.1906. Brick with stone dressings, roof of
slate. Five storeys over basement, nine-window range. The
outer, entrance, bays project to three storeys and are crowned
by a pediment with the letters ER in the tympanum. Ground
floor decorated with banded rustication; flat-arched entrances
with architrave in polished granite surmounted by a cornice
and smaller segmental pediment with festoons; two round-arched
windows with Gibbs surround and cartouche between, the
cartouche lettered 'NORTHERN DISTRICT POST OFFICE'; storey
band. All other windows flat-arched except for keyed oculi in
outermost bays of third floor. Outer windows to first floor
have architrave and pediment; those to inner bays have
architrave with cartouche above; storey band; the second-floor
windows have architraves simply; the three central bays are
flanked on the first floor by barely engaged Ionic columns
supporting an entablature; this centrepiece continues in the
form of four caryatids flanking the second-floor windows and
supporting a balcony with balustrades. Pediment over three
central third-floor windows, with royal coat of arms in the
tympanum; cornice and parapet; dormers inserted between
left-hand side stack and one slightly off centre.
Listing NGR: TQ3168283874
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