Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NW CLOUDESLEY ROAD
635-1/58/301 (East side)
No.116
The Crown public house

GV II

Public house. Late C19. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond with
dressings of red brick, stone and terracotta; roof obscured by
parapet. Three storeys over basement, four windows to
Cloudesley Road and three to Cloudesley Square, which are the
principal fronts. In the 'Queen Anne' style. Ground-floor pub
frontage framed by Corinthian pilasters of grey and pink
polished granite. Two entrances in Cloudesley Square,
flat-arched with small scrolled pediments over, that to the
right no longer used, that to the left having panelled doors
and glass engraved 'SALOON BAR'; chamfered corner entrance
with scrolled pediment and double panelled doors engraved 'THE
CROWN'; entrance in Cloudesley Road altered; flat-arched
windows between above panelled plinth, the lower panels of the
windows and small toplights having engraved glass; fascia and
dentil cornice; red brick quoins to upper floors; first-floor
windows segmental-arched with heads of gauged red brick under
a linking cornice, while those to the second floor have
aprons, sill band and flat-arched heads all of gauged red
brick; frieze of gauged red brick with festoons in terracotta
panels; dentil cornice; external stack to Cloudesley Square
with ogee profile and panels of red herringbone brick;
parapet.
The interior has features which could be of late C19 or early
C20 date, notably panelled dado, panels and frieze of moulded
and glazed tile, relief-moulded ceiling, island bar front and
glazed screens; but they may be replacement designs in whole
or part.

Listing NGR: TQ3120983738

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Crown at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17361843

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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