LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON
FLORIN COURT, SMITHFIELD,EC1M
An Art Deco residential building on the eastern side of Charterhouse Square, with wide window bands and corners curving into a recessed entrance to achieve a streamlined style.
The exterior was used as the fictional London residence of Agatha Christie’s character, Hercule Poirot.
Built in 1936 by Guy Morgan and Partners and is now grade II listed.
Florin Court, 6-9 Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6EU
SPA GREEN ESTATE, CLERKENWELL, EC1V
Sadler House, part of a pioneering social housing project designed by Berthold Lubetkin and completed in 1949.
A rich chequerboard pattern modelled in three dimensions and enforced by a serpentine plan.
Grade 2* Listed
Sadler House, Spa Green Estate, St John Street, London EC1V 4PP
CHARLES ROWAN HOUSE, CLERKENWELL, WC1X
Designed in the expressionist style in 1928-30 by G Mackenzie Trench, architect and surveyor for the Metropolitan Police Authority, these former flats for married police officers, now council flats, sit on a steeply sloping site.
The powerful, rhythmic street elevations with bays articulated by full-height moulded brick stacks are treated as pilasters that create a strong skyline and demarcate breaks in the roofline where the blocks step up the hill.
Grade II listed.
Charles Rowan House, Wilmington Street, Clerkenwell, London WC1X 0EH
BEVIN COURT, FINSBURY, WC1X
Bevin Court is one of several modernist housing projects in London designed in the immediate postwar period by the Tecton architecture practice, led by Berthold Lubetkin. Following the dissolution of Tecton, the project was realised by Lubetkin, Francis Skinner and Douglas Carr Bailey. It was completed in 1954.
Post-war austerity had imposed far greater budgetary constraints than in Tecton’s nearby social housing showpiece Spa Green Estate, completed in 1949 (illustrated above), forcing Lubetkin to strip the project of the basic amenities he had planned. There were to be no balconies, community centre or nursery school.
Grade II* listed status in December 1998.
Bevin Court, Cruikshank Street, Finsbury, London WC1X 9HA
ISLINGTON TOWN HALL, N1
The new building replaced a Victorian vestry hall and was designed by Edward Charles Philip Monson in the neoclassical style. It was constructed in three stages between from 1922 to 1929: first the rear wing facing Richmond Grove in 1922, second the northern part (illustrated here) in Upper Street in 1925 and third the Assembly Hall in 1929. The complex was officially opened by the mayor, Alderman William Manchester, on 15th March 1930.
The northern part features a symmetrical facade with Corinthian pilasters and a grand stone portico entrance on Upper Street. It now functions as a central venue for civil ceremonies, community gatherings, and municipal administrative services in the London Borough.
Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, London N1 2UD
MILNER SQUARE, BARNSBURY, N1
Side-hall entrance plan terraced houses in an austere Neoclassical style, forming western half of an oblong garden square.
Built in 1841 by Roumieu and Gough; pilastered entrances were altered in the 1930s and the entire square remodelled and restored in 1978 by Islington Council.
Grade 2 listed.
Milner Square, Barnsbury, London N1 1TW
CANOBURY TOWER, CANONBURY, N1
Canonbury Place is a rare example of a surviving London Tudor house.
Originally part of a country manor of the Prior and Canons of St Bartholomew's, West Smithfield in the early 16th century, it was transformed into a mansion in the late 16th century by Sir John Spencer; Lord Mayor of London.
This staircase tower dates circa 1580, with the top storey added later.
Grade 2* listed.
Canonbury Tower, Canonbury Place, London N1 2NQ
52-55 NEWINGTON GREEN, N16
A terraced row of four houses, built in 1658. These are the oldest terraced houses still surviving in England and were restored in the late 1990s with the aid of an English Heritage grant.
52-55 Newington Green, London N16 9PX