Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3181NE ST JOHN STREET
635-1/77/780 (East side)
Nos.18 AND 20

GV II

Warehouse. Late C19. Red brick set in Flemish bond with stone
dressings, roof of artificial slate. Six storeys over
basement, two-window range. Ground floor has two broad
cambered-arched openings, that to the left broader. Piers
faced with Corinthian pilasters of polished pink granite
supporting imposts of stone and decoratively moulded brick
arches between; cornice; some details of original shopfronts
remain. Upper storeys have four floors of windows and doors
ranged under two pointed arches, the two bays broad enough to
reduce the main wall to brick piers; warehouse doors with
wooden framing to either side on the right; flat-arched
tripartite windows to the left, divided by slim engaged
columns of marble with foliage capitals and shaft rings.
Warehouse crane at fourth-floor level, corbelled out on a
decorative marble column; oculus with stone architrave; coped
gable with finial at apex.

Listing NGR: TQ3182181856

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27084168

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)