Ye Olde Mitre Public House

YE OLDE MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, ELY COURT, EC1N 6SJ

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1078281
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1951
Statutory Address:
YE OLDE MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, ELY COURT, EC1N 6SJ
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1078281
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
10-Jan-2002
Statutory Address 1:
YE OLDE MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE, 1, ELY COURT, EC1N 6SJ

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

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