89, CHARTERHOUSE STREET (See details for further address information)

ISLINGTON

TQ3181NE CHARTERHOUSE STREET 635-1/77/229 (North side) No.89

GV II

Includes: Nos.2-6 ST JOHN STREET. Originally either offices or a bank, now a bank. Dated 1871 in panel to parapet. Portland stone with granite dressings, roof obscured by parapet. Four storeys over basement, four windows to Charterhouse Street, six windows to St John Street, one window in oriel to chamfered corner. Round-arched corner entrance with architrave of grey polished granite flanked by Doric columns of pink polished granite supporting an entablature with key pattern frieze; the keystone to the entrance architrave becomes a scrolled bracket supporting entablature, and similar scrolled brackets break across entablature to support two-storey semi-circular oriel to corner; flat-arched side entrance to St John Street with cast iron grille to overlight. Ground floor has banded rustication and basket-arched windows recessed in groups of three between Doric columns; entablature; upper windows generally flat-arched with moulded stucco architraves. On the oriel the first-floor windows are flanked by fluted Corinthian pilasters with a frieze of swags above; the second-floor windows have an enriched architrave, balustrade, and panels of arabesques to the frieze; cornice and blocking course. On the rest of the elevations, the first-floor windows are set between two halves of a Corinthian pilaster with bayleaf frieze and pediment; second-floor windows have enriched architrave and balustrade, and panels of arabesque above; third-floor windows have eared and shouldered architraves. Vitruvian scroll with foliage enrichment to frieze; scrolled brackets to cornice; blocking course; the segmental pediment to chamfered corner with a monogram of U, S and B (?); parapet rises behind pediment from scrolled consoles to enclose date panel with lionhead and drops, with a further pedimented panel above. Cast iron spiked rail below ground floor windows.

Listing NGR: TQ3178681830