Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3282SE CITY ROAD
635-1/76/246 (East side)
No.1
Lowndes House

II

Office building. Early C20. Portland stone, roofs of slate.
Seven storeys; the building occupies a wedge shaped site
between City Road and Tabernacle Street, with a five-window
range to the corner, six-window range to City Road, and
eight-window range to Tabernacle Street; the five-window range
forms a shallow bow in plan as far as the fifth floor;
additionally, the three middle windows are stepped forward
slightly to the ground floor, mezzanine and sixth floor, but
recessed in the intervening floors, the curved entablature
continued over the third floor and carried by two giant
Corinthian columns with balustrading between.
Base of grey polished granite with rusticated stone to the
rest of the ground floor and mezzanine; ground-floor openings
replaced, apart from keystones, in late C20; mezzanine windows
flat-arched with scrolled and festooned keystones to City Road
frontage, corner and first two bays of Tabernacle Street; on
this floor and above the remaining six bays in Tabernacle
Street are treated more plainly. Above the mezzanine, banded
rustication is confined to the corner elevation and the
left-hand bay in City Road; all upper windows flat-arched,
those to City Road and first two bays of Tabernacle Street
having architraves to first and second floors, and a panel
above that flanked by fasces to all but north bay; entablature
and modillion cornice; attic storey decorated with fasces to
curved front; cornice and blocking course; at seventh-floor
level there are segmental-arched dormers to City Road and
first two bays in Tabernacle Street; the corner is treated as
three temple fronts surmounted by a dome and lantern, those to
the sides having flat-arched windows with keystones and
festoons with open pediment over; that to the front having
round-arched window with festooned architrave, scrolled
keystone and oculus between the two pilasters supporting an
open and broken pediment.
The elevations of Lowndes House make particularly effective
use of its corner site.

Listing NGR: TQ3282682118

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27084187

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide