Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585517

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)