Hope And Anchor Public House

The Hope and Anchor Public House is a public house built around 1880. It is constructed of brick with stucco and stone dressings, and its roof is obscured by a parapet. The building has four storeys over a basement, featuring three windows facing Upper Street and five windows on Islington Park Street, which are the main frontages.

The ground floor includes pilasters at the ends of the main facades and round-arched arcades between, supported by Corinthian columns made of grey and pink polished granite. The spandrels are decorated with recessed panels of scrolling foliage, and there are ornate bracketed stops at the ends of the fascia. The first floor on Islington Park Street has round-arched windows with stucco architraves; the outer windows are pedimented, while others feature Corinthian capitals beneath a Lombard frieze. On Upper Street, there is an arcade of three round-arched windows with linked, free-standing pairs of columns that share abaci.

The second floor has flat-arched windows with simple architraves on the outer windows in Islington Park Street, while the others are linked by a springing band under round arches, with tympana decorated with incised natural ornament. Above this, there is a brick corbel table and cornice. Upper Street has three similar windows beneath a comparable corbel table and cornice. The fourth or attic storey features flat-arched windows at either end in Islington Park Street, with three segmental-arched windows in between, all set in a band of stucco that runs across the facade from the springing of the arches. Upper Street also has three similar windows. The keystones of these windows are part of a modillion cornice with a simple moulded design on the central part of both facades. Both facades are topped with an arcaded parapet. The interior underwent extensive refurbishment around 1988, and no original features of interest remain.