The Angel, Islington the northern side, on the corner of what is now the junction of Islington High Street and Pentonville Road, while the stables were now on what is St John Street, adjacent to the New Inn, which had been established in 1744. The Angel benefited from the extra traffic brought by the New Road, and in addition to accommodation provided a number of assembly rooms for public meetings. The author and political activist Thomas Paine is believed to have begun writing "Rights of Man" at the Angel in 1790, and there is a monument on Islington High Street commemorating this. By
The Angel, Islington was renovated between 1979 and 1982 by McLaughlin & Harvey Ltd with architects Elsom Pack & Roberts converting the building for office use and renaming it Angel Corner House. The ground floor is now a branch of The Co-operative Bank, and the ORC International market research agency occupies the upper floors. The building is now privately owned by Hamilton Investment Properties. The building, along with this section of Islington High Street has been part of the Angel conservation area since 1981 and The Corner House has been a Grade II listed building since 1991. The council describe this as "the