Finsbury Barracks And Attached Railings

ISLINGTON

TQ3282SE CITY ROAD 635-1/76/261 (West side) 28/12/90 Finsbury Barracks and attached railings

GV II

Barrack buildings for the Honourable Artillery Company. 1857. By Joseph A. Jennings. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings, roof obscured by parapet. Three and four storeys over basement, eleven-window range to City Road. The building is castellated in style, with Tudor details. Projecting centrepiece of three bays, designed as two four-storey towers flanking the entrance, with wings of four bays on either side, terminating in corner towers. The central segmental-pointed-arched entrance, with two-storey mullioned-and-transomed segmental-pointed-arched window over, is set in a recess in the centrepiece under a similar arch; the middle stage of the window consists of blank panels with carved coat of arms. For the rest, the windows are all flat-arched and generally of two and three lights, bartizans to the corner towers, the centrepiece and bartizans machicolated, the ranges between corbelled. In addition to the common chimneystacks which are rectangular in plan, there are two to the centrepiece and linked pairs to each of the corner towers which are octagonal and faced with ashlar. The north and south returns continue the elevational treatment, with an eight-window range to the north and seven-window range to the south; except that at the fourth bay the front is recessed in plan on a chamfer and the parapet ceases to be embattled, and that the window details are simpler. Cast-iron railings and gates with double rail, coat of arms of the Honourable Artillery Company on the standards, and spearhead finials.

Listing NGR: TQ3277782178