272 To 276, Pentonville Road And Scottish Stores Public House 2 To 4, Caledonian Road

Offices and public house with offices and flats above, located at the corner of Pentonville Road and Caledonian Road. Built in 1900-01 by architects Wylson and Long, probably for James Kirk. The building is constructed of brown glazed brick and buff terracotta, with the roof obscured by a parapet.

The building rises five storeys, with four windows facing Pentonville Road and eleven facing Caledonian Road. The corner is curved in plan. The ground floor of Nos. 272-276 Pentonville Road was refronted around 1930, but the ground floor of Nos. 2-4 Caledonian Road retains almost certainly the original pub frontage from 1901. This frontage has three bays flanked by six-sided columns of pink granite with banded rustication. The capitals are in the manner of a pulvinated frieze, with a triangular fin on the front face running down through the top three blocks on the columns. Glazed wooden screens between piers with pilasters and cornice separate the bays, with doors at either end and in the middle. The doors have segmental-arched heads, and panelling details across this front are variations on the segmental arch. Squat corbelled colonnettes run from the dado rail to the principal windows. There is etched glass in the central windows and some others, with top lights having a shallow double-curved profile. The fascia is obscured.

The upper floors have flat-arched windows. The first-floor windows are arranged in groups of four—one group to Pentonville Road and two to Caledonian Road—with terracotta architraves, keystones and shallow round-arched mouldings above. Three remaining windows to Caledonian Road have keystones only. The second floor has a sill-band with scrolled terracotta ornament, with windows arranged similarly to the first floor but with pointed-arched mouldings with straight sides.

The third floor is entirely faced with terracotta. Pairs of windows are flanked by Corinthian pilasters rising from the sill-band and corbels with grotesque heads. The windows have keystones with grotesque heads, and a modillion cornice runs above.

The attic storey to Nos. 272-276 consists of two gables to each street front, parapet and corner tower, all of glazed brick with terracotta detailing including pilasters and entablature to windows, scrolled consoles, coping to parapet and gables, and ribs and mouldings to the corner tower. A metal cresting crowns the tower.

The interior of Nos. 2-4 Caledonian Road comprises a pub space that is a single room divided by glazed wooden screens with fielded panelling rising to about seven feet, and cornice mouldings run through all the original partitioned spaces. The screen incorporating the bar-back features an open arcade of swelling Corinthian colonnettes supporting shallow double-curved arches. A screen running back from the street front has etched glass panels. An enclosed staircase at the north-east corner has etched glass panels and a newel post with Jacobean detailing and an octagonal finial of Arts and Crafts character. Above the bar-back in the south bar is a cartouche inscribed "THE SCOTTISH STORES 1901". The walls retain a set of coloured lithographs by Cecil Aldin of 1900, set into frames in the panelling.