458-462, HOLLOWAY ROAD (See details for further address information)

This is a late 19th-century building of shops, offices, and possibly flats, dated 1891, located on Holloway Road and Seven Sisters Road in Islington. The building, named Bathurst Mansions, is constructed of light buff terracotta with a slate roof. It is five stories high, with a two-and-a-half window range facing Holloway Road and Seven Sisters Road, and a one-window range on the curved corner.

The ground floor features 20th-century shop fronts, except for the segmental-arched entrance to the northernmost bay on Holloway Road, which has an inscription in its frieze. A giant order of Corinthian pilasters decorates the first, second, and third floors, with elaborate festoons and other ornaments. The first and second floors of the two easternmost bays on Seven Sisters Road and the two southernmost bays on Holloway Road are designed as an arcade featuring round archivolts rising from just above the bases of the pilasters. The first-floor windows are flat-arched, while the full-bay windows have scrolled consoles supporting the lintels, except for the southernmost window on Holloway Road. The second floor has flat-arched pediments over the windows in the half bays, with tripartite windows stepped in height under the arcade, and flat-arched windows flanked by piers to the corner. The third floor has flat-arched windows, with bulbous, fluted, corbelled balconies positioned centrally over the archivolts, and grotesque heads set within sunk foliage roundels on either side of the balconies. The entablature has an ornate frieze of festoons and heads within roundels, topped by a modillion cornice. A balustraded parapet is interrupted by massively ornate dormers, each featuring scrolled consoles, pilasters, an enriched frieze, and a pediment with arabesque ornament in the tympanum. A plain circular tower with a Lombard frieze and cornice is located at the corner, although the roof and upper detailing are now absent. The roof is a Mansard style with elaborate iron cresting and pilasters to the stacks. This building is a well-preserved example of elaborate late Victorian commercial terracotta work and contributes significantly to the broad streetscape of Holloway Road.