Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NE
635-1/59/520

ISLINGTON GREEN
(North side)
No.1
The Slug and Lettuce public house

II

Formerly known as: The Fox public house.
Includes: No.330 UPPER STREET.
Public house, refitted as The Fox c.1900, no 330 Upper Street
a shop, now a restaurant; flats or offices above. Mid- to late
C19 with late C19 and C20 alterations to ground floor. Red
brick set in Flemish bond, and painted on no 1 Islington
Green, stucco, roofs of Welsh slate. Four storeys over
basement, seven-window range to Upper Street, four-window
range to Islington Green, with curved corner. No 330 Upper
Street has C20 ground floor, no 1 Islington Green has late C19
and early C20 pub frontage to ground floor with two entries in
Upper Street and two in Islington Green (though that to the
public bar in Islington Green has been altered to a window)
and one to the corner; the entrances are flanked by pilasters
of grey and pink polished granite and (presumably) stucco, now
painted, and are flat-arched, except for that to the corner
which is round-arched with moulded stucco archivolt, keystone
and foliage decoration to the spandrels. The pub entrances
retain their original doorcases with sidelights, and the house
entrance in Islington Green has a panelled door of original
design; corner entrance has original panelled door with modern
glazing. The original windows between the entrances are
flat-arched with decorative glazing-bars forming two segmental
arches; panels below the windows tiled in the early C20. Upper
windows all flat-arched with moulded stucco architraves, those
to the first floor having pediments, which are segmental on
no. 330 Upper Street, those to the second floor with cornices,
the second windows from the corner in Islington Green blank.
Rusticated pilaster strips divide no 330 Upper Street from no
1 Islington Green, and the northernmost bay of no 1 Islington
Green from the rest, and flank the blank curved corner; sill
bands to both floors; moulded stucco cornice and blocking
course; flat-arched dormer to mansard roof; clock in curved
panel to corner with eared architraves, scrolled consoles and
segmental pediment; stacks to party walls and to parapet on
both facades of no. 1 Islington Green, panelled with consoles
and cornices.
INTERIOR: : the bars are no longer partitioned except that an
arcaded partition of three bays, of c.1900 and possibly
original to the bar, divides the bar facing into Islington
Green from the rest; tongue and groove panelling at the north
and south ends of the bar; late C19 bar-front partly altered,
late C19 bar back with arcaded superstructure carried on
partly fluted Corinthian columns but lacking decorative mirror
glass; Lincrusta ceiling. Staircase at north end with panelled
dado and underside, panelled newel posts and turned balusters.
Upstairs front room with pedimented architraves to doors,
Lincrusta paper to dado, frieze and ceiling, and marble corner
fireplace with cast-iron grate and transfer-printed tiles, all
of c.1900.

Listing NGR: TQ3165483689

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Slug and Lettuce, Islington at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17020568

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  For the Record