1. CENTRAL ISLINGTON: AN ARCHITECTURAL WALK
The aim of the walk is to learn about the various styles of architecture that have been employed in the development of the streets of central Islington
Beginning at The Angel, the walks takes us along Islington High Street and Upper Street as far as Cross Street. Cross Street takes us to Essex Road, at which point we turn left as far as New North Road, returning along Essex Road, finishing at Islington Green
The walk is not intended to be comprehensive in nature, although it does include a number of significant buildings protected by statutory listing

2. Angel Building
407 St John Street
Year: 2010
Architect: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Style: Commercial Modernism
Co-operative Bank (former Angel Hotel)
1 Islington High Street
Year: 1903
Architect: Eedle & Myers
Grade II listed
From 1921 to a Lyons Corner House

3. Starbucks Coffee Shop (former Angel Picture Theatre)
7 Islington High Street
Year: 1913
Architect: H. Courtney Constantine
Features a Baroque campanile-style tower, all that remains of the original building
Grade II listed
Angel Square
Year:
Architect: Rock Townsend
Style: Postmodern

4. HSBC Bank (former “White Lion”)
23-24 Islington High Street
Rebuilt:
Style: Late Victorian Flemish
Features two relief panels on the White Lion Street elevation
“The York” public house
82 Islington High Street
Year: 1872
Grade II listed

5. Terraced houses
84-94 Islington High Street
Late 18th century
Style: Georgian
Of particular interest: the door surrounds and decorative fanlights
O2 shop (former Halifax Building Society)
1 Upper Street
c. 1850s
Style: Italianate

6. Sofa.com (former Electric Tramway Transformer Station) at The Mall
359 Upper Street
Year:
Architect: Vincent Harris of the LCC Architects Dept
Grade II listed
Details said to be inspired by Newgate Prison which had been recently demolished
Phelps Cottage
357 Upper Street
Year: 1838
Brick stuccoed
Grade II listed

7. Colinsdale Estate
Camden Walk
Year:
Architect: Islington Borough Architects Department
“The Camden Head” public house
2 Camden Walk
Year: 1899
Grade II listed

8. Waterstones Bookshop (former Collins Music Hall)
11 Islington Green
Rebuilt: 1897
Architect: Ernest Woodrow
“Fox on the Green” public house
1 Islington Green
Year: c.1900
Style: Italianate
Grade II listed

9. Aztec Row
1-6 Berners Street
Year: 1988
Architect: Maxwell Hutchinson
Style: Postmodern
Business Design Centre
52 Upper Street
Year: 1985
Architect: Renton Howard Wood Levin
Redevelopment of the former Agricultural Hall of The original building is best viewed from Liverpool Road

10. Café Nero (former Electric Theatre)
75 Upper Street
Year: 1908
Architecf: Melville S. Ward
Grade II listed
The entrance wing is said to be the earliest surviving portion of a cinema in London
The Screen on the Green cinema
(former Empress Picture Theatre)
83 Upper Street
Year: 1913
Architect: Boreham & Gladding
Modernised in 1981, but retains the original barrel-vaulted ceiling

11. Former London Salvage Corps offices
90-92 Upper Street
Architect: William Wimble
Grade II listed
Former Congregational Chapel
311 Upper Street/Gaskin Street
Year: 1889
Architects: Bonella and Henry John Paull
Style: Queen Anne

12. “King’s Head” public house
115 Upper Street
Year: c. 1864
Style: Italianate
Grade II listed
Former Northern District Post Office
116 Upper Street
Year: 1906
Architect: Jasper Wager
Style: Edwardian
Grade II listed
Currently not visible!

13. Church of St Mary
Upper Street
Year: 1754
Architect: Launcelot Dowbiggin
Portico added 1903; all but the tower and portico rebuilt after bomb damage, , to the designs of Seeley and Paget
Grade II listed
Almeida Theatre
Almeida Street
Year: c. 1837
Architects: Roumieu & Gough
Style: Neo-Classical
Grade II listed

14. Upper Street
Year: 1891
Architect: Herbert Huntly-Gordon
Style: Late Victorian Flemish in terra-cotta
53-59 Cross Street
Year: c. 1768
Built by Benjamin Williams, carpenter
Style: Georgian
Grade II listed

15. Resurrections Manifestations Church (former Carlton Cinema)
Essex Road
Year: 1930
Architect: George Coles
Style Egyptian Art Deco
Grade II* listed
Former fire station (?)
32 Cross Street
Year: 1897

16. South Library
Essex Road
Year: 1916
Architect: Mervyn Macartney
Grade II listed
Suncourt House
18-36 Essex Road
A former bicycle factory built in the 1930s in the modern style