The Boston Arms Public House

The Boston Arms is a public house dating to 1899, designed by Thorpe and Furniss. It is located on the corner of Junction Road and Dartmouth Park Hill in Islington. The building is constructed of red brick in English bond, with granite facings to the ground floor and Portland stone dressings above, and has a Welsh slate roof. It is four storeys high, with a basement, and has a four-window frontage to Junction Road, a six-window frontage to Dartmouth Park Hill, and a corner bow of five windows.

The ground floor features Corinthian pilasters to the flat frontages, and engaged Corinthian columns of black polished granite supporting a fascia. There are scrolled pediments over former entrances, with subsidiary pedimented panels between the scrolls. The doors and windows on the ground floor are of late 20th-century design. The upper floors have three bays stepping back from the corner of the building in both roads. These bays are two storeys high and have dormers above. A further two bays beyond these are only one storey high. On Dartmouth Park Hill, the two-storey bays feature a Palladian motif with stilted arches and a scrolled pediment. The first floor windows on Dartmouth Park Hill are flat-arched, with some being flattened bows. The principal windows have plain pilasters, an enriched frieze, and scrolled pediments. The second-floor windows are round-arched, with stone archivolts and courses of stone in the brickwork. A bracketed cornice runs around the building, and the lower wing has a balustraded parapet. The Junction Road elevation mirrors the design, except for a stone panel carved in low relief in the middle bay, depicting term figures, swags, and an inscription. The second floor of the Junction Road frontage has a pair of windows under each stilted arch. Flat-arched windows with transoms are found between half-fluted pilasters on the corner. A sill band featuring strapwork and grotesque heads is present on the second floor, with the main cornice carried around. Dormers on the side elevation have fluted pilasters and scrolled pediments. Ornamented stacks are positioned between these dormers, featuring scrolled consoles at the base, fluted pilasters, and a cornice. The corner of the building has a two-stage, stone-faced circular tower with flat-arched windows to the first stage, an iron balcony, and a rusticated second stage with a balustrade. Round-arched blank niches alternate with clocks, and gargoyles are present to the cornice. A lead-covered dome supports a cupola and decorative wrought-iron weather vane. The interior lacks original features of interest.