Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NE RAWSTORNE STREET 635-1/69/695 (South East side) Brewers Buildings and attached railings

GV II

Block of flats. Built as philanthropic housing by the Brewer's Company. Dated in heraldic plaques over the entrances in the respective wings; nos 1-24 of 1871, nos 25-34 of 1876, and nos 35-46 of 1882. Probably designed by Edward B.Martineau, Surveyor to the Company. Yellow brick laid in English bond with dressings of red and blue brick and of stone; roofs obscured by parapet. Four storeys, with basement only to recessed part of nos 25-34; the street front consists of staircase bays with three windows on either side to each floor, two of them paired; these three windows make up the street front of each flat. Three staircase bays to nos 1-24, one to nos 25-34 and two to nos 35-46; these bays are in a shallow recess to three storeys flanked by colonnettes; the entrance is segmental-arched to nos 1-24, flat-arched under a segmental arch to the rest, and the doors have chamfered panelling; the central entrance to nos 1-24 and the other entrances have heraldic carving in the tympana carrying dates; first- and second-floor windows of entrance bays have segmental pointed arches with decorative heads of gauged red and yellow brick, and diaperwork between; third-floor windows are triple segmental-arched; decorative iron grilles to all staircase windows. All windows to flats on ground, first and second floors are segmental-arched sashes recessed under a pointed arch, the heads of gauged brick with decorative alternation of red and yellow brick, and courses of red brick headers as a decorative springing band; third-floor windows segmental-arched. First-, second- and third-floor windows to flats have iron window guards. Corbelled cornice with bricks set at an angle; parapet with diaperwork. Cast-iron railings to area of nos 25-34. In the original plans, nos 1-24 and 35-45 had two bedrooms in each flat, nos 25-34 and 40-46 one bedroom; the interiors were renovated by the London Borough of Islington in the 1980s. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3169482864

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