Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3181NE COWCROSS STREET 635-1/77/346 (North side) Nos.26 AND 27

GV II

Workshops or warehouse. 1879, by Thomas Milbourn, with ground-floor entrance of c.1925. Red brick set in Flemish bond with dressings of blue and yellow brick, terracotta, stone and tiles; roof obscured by parapet. Four storeys, four-window range. On the ground floor, only the fascia survives and the flat-arched entrance to the left, faced with ashlar and decorated with broad panels of fluting and wrought-iron work to grilles, overlight and door; the rest demolished at time of survey. Upper windows have shallow straight-sided pointed arches of stone, the chamfered faces decorated with dogtooth ornament; over the window-heads are pointed-arched panels whose varied ornament in different more or less integral materials is the particular feature of the building: to the first floor, bands of blue, red and yellow brick, horizontal to the outer windows, diagonal to the inner; to the second floor, bands of moulded terracotta ornament against blue brick to outer windows, octagonal tiles to inner; the six-windowed third floor has terracotta decoration to the outer windows, then two of tiles,then two of terracotta; all windows divided into two straight-sided pointed arches with slim metal columns, except for second-floor right-hand window. Moulded sill bands to second and third floors; openwork stone quatrefoils in spandrels between windows; continuous arcade of relieving arches in brick and stone to parapet. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3166381855

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)