Post Office

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NE UPPER STREET 635-1/59/872 (West side) No.116 Post Office

GV II

Post Office. c.1906. Brick with stone dressings, roof of slate. Five storeys over basement, nine-window range. The outer, entrance, bays project to three storeys and are crowned by a pediment with the letters ER in the tympanum. Ground floor decorated with banded rustication; flat-arched entrances with architrave in polished granite surmounted by a cornice and smaller segmental pediment with festoons; two round-arched windows with Gibbs surround and cartouche between, the cartouche lettered 'NORTHERN DISTRICT POST OFFICE'; storey band. All other windows flat-arched except for keyed oculi in outermost bays of third floor. Outer windows to first floor have architrave and pediment; those to inner bays have architrave with cartouche above; storey band; the second-floor windows have architraves simply; the three central bays are flanked on the first floor by barely engaged Ionic columns supporting an entablature; this centrepiece continues in the form of four caryatids flanking the second-floor windows and supporting a balcony with balustrades. Pediment over three central third-floor windows, with royal coat of arms in the tympanum; cornice and parapet; dormers inserted between left-hand side stack and one slightly off centre.

Listing NGR: TQ3168283874