Lloyd Baker Land

The sign below is one of my favourites in London ...

It nestles inconspicuously in the doorway of a peculiar tacked-on property in Lloyd Baker Street, Islington (carefully marked for you below), sadly no longer a chemist and druggist's ...

The great thing about the estate, apart from generally lovely early-19C buildings (it was laid out in the 1820s and 1830s in the main), is the fact that it sits on a relatively steep hill, rolling down to the Fleet Valley (aka King's Cross Road). Any street on a slope has immediate charm. Wharton Street contains some of the grander houses, although still not terribly large ...

Lloyd Baker Street has smaller houses, with very cute first floor windows ...

There's a particularly nice alleyway off Lloyd Baker Square (although its marks where the 20C interrupts the original housing with a council estate, and may be 20C in origin) ...

and there's the odd architectural quirk ...

... but I can't really do the area justice (check out nearby Percy Circus, for instance, which boasts a 'Lenin lived here' plaque). I recommend you explore it for yourself ...

And while you're at it, look for this corner house in Granville Square. Can you spot what's amiss?

Something wrong with that, surely? Lovecraftian geometry in Islington.

UPDATE:

Thanks to Suzanne for the link to British History Online (always worth checking) which shows the original estate layout. As suspected, the alley shown above did not exist - looks like it was a passage leading to a back yard.

For considerable detail about the estate, see the relevant page - here.