82 And 84, St John Street

ISLINGTON

TQ3182SE ST JOHN STREET 635-1/74/790 (East side) 13/05/75 Nos.82 AND 84

GV II

Two terraced houses, now offices. Early C18. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond on no 82 and header bond on no 84, stucco, roof obscured by parapet. Four storeys, four windows each. Ground floor divided into four bays by panelled wooden pilasters and incorporating works entrance and double doors of late C18 design; moulded stucco cornice, with brackets at either end of c.1900. Upper windows flat-arched with heads of gauged red brick, those to no 84 recessed but set within thick frames, which are segmental-arched on the first floor; stucco storey band between second and third floors; parapet. The interior has remains of former workshop buildings on the ground floor, in the form of cast-iron columns, and possibly also the galleried and toplit form of the rear building. On the first floor, the north and south front rooms are panelled with modillion cornices, eared chimneypieces and, in the south room, a cast-iron grate; the back room to the south is panelled with a part moulded and part dentil cornice, and eared chimneypiece. The staircase to no 84 is of mid-C18 date with paired turned balusters.

Listing NGR: TQ3182082044