Ye Olde Mitre Public House
YE OLDE MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, ELY COURT, EC1N 6SJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078281
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Mitre Public House
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLDE MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, ELY COURT, EC1N 6SJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078281
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Jan-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Mitre Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- YE OLDE MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, ELY COURT, EC1N 6SJ
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLDE MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, ELY COURT, EC1N 6SJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31409 81644
Details
TQ 31418164
ELY COURT EC1,
No.1,
YE OLDE MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE
(Formerly listed as:THE MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE)
24.10.1951
II
Public house. C1773 with early C20 internal remodelling and late C20 extension at rear. MATERIALS: stock brick. Welsh slate roof.
PLAN: front and back bars separated by central servery. Small snug leading off back bar. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic. Ground-floor frontage with glazed timber screen, central window with 18 square lights. Right-hand doorway blocked and framed by flat pilasters with Corinthian capitals. To left blocked doorway or hatch. Entablature with dentil cornice. Two first-floor 6/6 horned sash windows with 2-light casements under cambered heads. Timber and glass front with door to southern part of left-hand return. 2 first-floor windows similar to main frontage. 2 blind second-floor windows. Two-storey wing on left of building, 3-light Tudor style windows on ground floor.
INTERIOR: ground-floor bar spaces have extensive panelling, possibly installed in 1920s refitting. Panelled bar counters to front and back bars. Tudor style fireplaces in both bars. Skylight over rear part of rear bar. Corner of the front bar near entrance glazed in to reveal trunk of what is believed to be a cherry tree, marking the boundary of the properties held by the Bishop of Ely and Sir Christopher Hatton. Walls of staircase covered by wide, horizontally laid panels that may date back to late C18 construction. Front upstairs room refitted for public use c1990. HISTORY: The Mitre Tavern believed to be founded in 1546 for the servants at the Bishop of Ely's London house. The site and adjacent properties in Ely Place were cleared after the Crown took over the area in 1772. This public house retains its early C20 plan and fittings almost entirely intact.
Listing NGR: TQ3141181644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477174
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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