14, Barnsbury Road

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TQ3183SW 635-1/64/63

ISLINGTON BARNSBURY ROAD (East side) No.14

(Formerly listed as No.14 The Penny Farthing public house)

II Formerly known as: White Conduit House BARNSBURY ROAD.

Former public house. Mid-C19. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, roof of asphalt so far as visible. Three storeys over basement with dormers in attic, two windows to each of the principal facades in Barnsbury Road and Dewey Road, with a range two storeys high with a dormer, and one window wide, in Dewey Road. The ground floor pub front has two entrances in Dewey Road, that to the left with panelled doors set back to form a porch, and engaged columns and archivolt to front, that to the right has superimposed pilasters, cornice and overlight; the entrance in Barnsbury Road broadly matches the left-hand entrance in Dewey Road; openings flanked by pilasters, top-lights to windows and entrances, but no surviving decorative glass and one window in Dewey Road blocked; fascia; cornice; first and second floors of main block have giant pilasters flanking both windows bays, producing paired pilasters to the centre of each front, the capitals having delicate neo-Classical ornament; all windows flat-arched, those to the first floor with pilasters and pediment, those to second floor with architrave simply; frieze on both fronts inscribed with sunk lettering 'WHITE CONDUIT HOUSE'; modillion cornice and blocking course; dormers in mansard roof; end stacks. Two-storey wing is stuccoed to ground floor with flat-arched entrance and one flat-arched window, first-floor window with pilasters and cornice, now partly simplified; cornice and blocking course, dormer in mansard roof, end stack. The interior has no surviving features of interest.

Listing NGR: TQ3109783402