Post Office
POST OFFICE, 116, UPPER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297985
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 116, UPPER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297985
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, 116, UPPER STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 116, UPPER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Islington (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31682 83874
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3183NE UPPER STREET 635-1/59/872 (West side) No.116 Post Office
GV II
Post Office. c.1906. Brick with stone dressings, roof of slate. Five storeys over basement, nine-window range. The outer, entrance, bays project to three storeys and are crowned by a pediment with the letters ER in the tympanum. Ground floor decorated with banded rustication; flat-arched entrances with architrave in polished granite surmounted by a cornice and smaller segmental pediment with festoons; two round-arched windows with Gibbs surround and cartouche between, the cartouche lettered 'NORTHERN DISTRICT POST OFFICE'; storey band. All other windows flat-arched except for keyed oculi in outermost bays of third floor. Outer windows to first floor have architrave and pediment; those to inner bays have architrave with cartouche above; storey band; the second-floor windows have architraves simply; the three central bays are flanked on the first floor by barely engaged Ionic columns supporting an entablature; this centrepiece continues in the form of four caryatids flanking the second-floor windows and supporting a balcony with balustrades. Pediment over three central third-floor windows, with royal coat of arms in the tympanum; cornice and parapet; dormers inserted between left-hand side stack and one slightly off centre.
Listing NGR: TQ3168283874
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369401
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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