Brewers Buildings And Attached Railings

A block of flats built in phases between 1871 and 1882 by the Brewer's Company as philanthropic housing. The block was likely designed by Edward B. Martineau, who served as Surveyor to the Company. The facades of the three sections are marked with heraldic plaques displaying the dates of construction. The buildings are constructed of yellow brick in English bond, with dressings of red and blue brick and stone. The roofs are concealed behind a parapet.

The buildings are four storeys high, with a basement to the recessed section of numbers 25-34. The street front features staircase bays, with three windows on each floor, two of which are paired, forming the street front of each flat. The bays are set back, flanked by colonnettes, with segmental arched entrances to the section numbered 1-24 and flat-arched entrances under a segmental arch to the rest. Doors have chamfered panelling, and the tympana of the entrances above numbers 1-24 and the other entrances feature heraldic carvings displaying the construction dates. The first and second floor entrance bay windows have segmental pointed arches with decorative heads of gauged red and yellow brick and diaperwork. Third-floor windows are triple segmental-arched. Decorative iron grilles are present to all the staircase windows. Windows to the flats on the ground, first, and second floors are segmental-arched sashes recessed under a pointed arch, with heads of gauged brick featuring decorative alternation of red and yellow brick and courses of red brick headers as a decorative springing band. The third-floor windows are also segmental-arched. Iron window guards are fitted to the first, second, and third floor flat windows. A corbelled cornice is topped by a diapered parapet. Cast-iron railings are present to the area of numbers 25 to 34.

Originally, the flats at numbers 1-24 and 35-45 contained two bedrooms, while numbers 25-34 and 40-46 contained one. The interiors were renovated by the London Borough of Islington in the 1980s.