Council Offices

ISLINGTON

TQ2986NE ST JOHN'S GROVE 635-1/13/804 (South East side) 29/09/72 Council Offices (Formerly Listed as: ST JOHNS GROVE St John's National School Cottages)

GV II

Semi-detached cottages with school buildings to rear, now premises for London Borough of Islington Social Services. Mid-C19, but the school probably of a later date than the cottages. The cottages of white brick set in Flemish bond with dressings of stone; the school buildings of yellow and brown brick; slate roofs. One and two storeys; the cottage of two-window range to St John's Grove, the school buildings of seven-window range to the east. The cottages in a Gothic style with projecting gabled end bays to St John's Grove: Tudor-arched entrance to side with canted single-storey bay alongside; ground-floor windows flat-arched with rectilinear tracery except innermost facing St John's Grove which has three flat-arched lights with sashes; frieze over inner ground-floor windows in St John's Grove lettered 'ST JOHN'S NATIONAL SCHOOLS'; stone string to sills of first floor windows which are flat-arched, of one, two and three lights with trefoiled tracery, all in full dormers except those to gabled bays; stacks to party wall with panelled chimneypots, and to ridge. The school building is in four parts: two-storey wing behind the cottages with flat-arched studio windows to first floor; a single-storey wing with pointed-arched windows in full dormers and glazing bars in the form of Y-tracery; a gabled cross-wing to the south with similar windows with Y-tracery; and a shorter, parallel cross wing further south again; all gables have billets to raking cornices.

Listing NGR: TQ2967786623