The Royal Mail Public House

ISLINGTON

TQ3184SE UPPER STREET 635-1/53/875 (West side) No.153 The Royal Mail P.H.

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Public House. Presumably 1879. Brick, stucco and polished granite, the roof obscured by parapet. Three storeys, one-window range. Ground floor consists almost entirely of wooden pub front set back between pilasters of marble and polished granite, the set-back covered with late C20 tiles. The wooden front consists of two pairs of doors flanking a semi-circular bay in the form of an oriel window, the doors panelled and glazed with a decorative arcade which runs across the bay; the bay has scrolled cresting with palmette ornaments; panelled toplights run across the whole front. First and second floors framed by brick pilasters with simple cornice to first and dentil cornice to second floor. First-and second-floor windows flat-arched and tripartite, the parts separated by columns. Stucco panels between the first- and second-floor windows carry shields surrounded by foliage, the shields inscribed with dates and monograms: 'AD 1631/RMT/HWC/AD1879'. Cornice with central pediment in front of parapet. Inside, the bar counter survives in whole or part, and parts of the bar-back: wooden pilasters surporting embossed gilded frieze and cornice, bracketed shelving and four panels of engraved and faceted glass. However the original plan of small partitioned bars and a long passage down the south side has been lost.

Listing NGR: TQ3166684089