80, St John Street

ISLINGTON

TQ3182SE ST JOHN STREET 635-1/74/789 (East side) 13/05/75 No.80

GV II

Terraced house, now offices. Probably of the early 1750s. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roof of Welsh slate. Four storeys, two-window range. Ground floor stuccoed with banded rustication, the right-hand doorway probably a late C20 insertion with canopy over as part of cornice. All windows flat-arched with gauged brick heads to first, second and third floors; bracketed cornice above second floor, parapet above third; two dormers in mansard roof. First-floor front room has fluted dado rail, the architrave and inner panelling of the door, the architraves to window embrasures and the window shutters are decorated with horizontal fluting, and there is a frieze of palmette and urn motifs and cornice; fine Adam-style ceiling probably of c.1790, with central fan motif, festoons, arabesques and modelled figures in oval medallions at the four compass points; the fireplace is a late C20 replacement. The back room on the first floor has panels of equal size and square proportions, and a modillion cornice with egg-and-dart ornament to the architrave. Round arch to first-floor passage with double pilasters and panelled soffit with rosettes. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3181282031