Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3087SE CROUCH HILL
635-1/9/354 (South West side)
29/09/72 Nos.1 AND 3
(Formerly Listed as:
CROUCH HILL
No.1)

II

Dairy and shop. No 1 the former premises of Friern Manor Dairy
Farm Limited; no 3 a shop. c.1895. Brown glazed brick, red
rubbed brick with stone dressings, sgraffito, roofs obscured
by parapet. Single-storey. The dairy front has a base of brown
glazed brick; elliptical-arched carriage entrance with foliage
imposts of stone carrying a stone archivolt reverting to
rubbed brick in the middle section; five bays to left of the
entrance, two to the right: round-arched panels with stone
foliage imposts and archivolts with roll-mouldings, flanked by
Corinthian pilasters; the panels filled with scenes in
sgraffito depicting dairy processes, from left to right:
grazing, milking, cooling, country delivery, making butter,
old-style delivery and present-day delivery; frieze of swags
interspersed with heads in cartouches; scrolled parapet
interrupted over the third bay from the left by a panel with
incised lettering: 'ESTABLISHED A0 1836 DI', and by a panel
over the entrance inscribed 'FRIERN MANOR DAIRY FARM
LIMITED',this panel topped by a stone panel with consoles
depicting a mythological-cum-dairy scene. Two octagonal
cupolas with louvred lantern stage, lead-covered ogee roofs
and iron sunflower finials behind the parapet. No 3 has a C20
shop front flanked by pilasters with possibly vestiges of
original shop front behind the modern fascia; cornice with
festooned brackets; parapet of composition stone with
cartouche in central brick panel. The sgraffito panels are
very unusual in being pictorial and in a street; there is not
very much late nineteenth century sgraffito work, and what
there is is almost always decorative in treatment or in
churches.

Listing NGR: TQ3068187428

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585580

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