THE QUEENS PUBLIC HOUSE

THE QUEENS PUBLIC HOUSE, 26, TOTTENHAM LANE N8

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1079170
Date first listed:: 23-Nov-1973
List Entry Name:: THE QUEENS PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE QUEENS PUBLIC HOUSE, 26, TOTTENHAM LANE N8

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Date:: 2000-08-27
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1079170
Date first listed:: 23-Nov-1973
List Entry Name:: THE QUEENS PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE QUEENS PUBLIC HOUSE, 26, TOTTENHAM LANE N8
Statutory Address 2:: THE QUEENS PUBLIC HOUSE, BROADWAY PARADE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE QUEENS PUBLIC HOUSE, 26, TOTTENHAM LANE N8
Statutory Address:: THE QUEENS PUBLIC HOUSE, BROADWAY PARADE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

National Grid Reference:: TQ 30228 88571

Details

800/33/257 BROADWAY PARADE 23-NOV-1973 CROUCH END The Queen's Public House II*

Includes: The Queen's Public House, No.26 Tottenham Lane N8, CROUCH END

Also Known As: THE QUEEN'S PUBLIC HOUSE, ELDER AVENUE, CROUCH END

Pub, formerly hotel. 1899-1901 by John Cathles Hill (1858-1915), builder and developer. 3 storeys and attic; 3 bay front to Broadway Parade with lesser bay at south end, rounded angle to 2 bays and lower end bay on Elder Avenue. Red brick with extensive pale yellow limestone dressings; black granite to ground floor pilasters and base; lead-sheathed roof to angle turret; slate mansard roof with dormers. EXTERIOR: circular entrance lobby with mosaic floor with QH monogram, wrought iron screen above inscribed with THE QUEENS. Tripartite front to Broadway Parade with central gable, triple arcade to ground floor containing arched windows with heavy mullions and pedimented aedicular frames within, with Art Nouveau stained glass to lower lights. Dado and below faced in granite, with diaper pattern panels. Southern entrance via entrance flanked by Corinthian columns with aedicule, set below wrought iron screen with pub name, and above a mosaic floor with the name repeated again. Entrance to upper floors at south end with 9-panel door with overlight, set within stone hood; open swan's neck pediment above. Main front articulated with Corinthian pilasters, with shafts of granite supporting entablature with painted frieze; pedimented caps to projecting piers. Upper floors faced in banded brickwork. Aedicular surrounds to 1st floor windows with mullions (treated as square columns) and transoms (treated as a continuation of a projecting string course); windows arranged 2-3-3 along main front with arched windows to central bay. Second floor windows with square column mullions support continuous frieze to both elevations. Gabled bay to attic over central bay with banded stonework, triple window, segmental pediment termination. Corner drum with six-light windows to each floor (seven to attic), with cornice of cut brick beneath decorative lead roof. Return to Elder Avenue is stepped up towards corner with a chimneystack beside the corner drum. Arcaded ground floor with decorative screen. Former entrance to upper floors to east (now blocked), beneath pediment with name of hotel. INTERIOR: survives largely intact. Central bar with four separate areas divided by ornate wooden glazed partitions with etched decoration to doors, and Art Nouveau stained glass to upper sections of screens; pierced parapets above. Bar counter with panelled front to all sides, Ionic terms flank counter facing saloon bar, which has a snuggery and wooden fireplace with tiled surround and mirrored overmantel within inglenook. Wooden chimneypiece along east wall with tiled surround and mirrored overmantel. Coffered ceiling with relief decoration of arabesques and mermaids. Cast iron Corinthian columns to centre. Upper floors not inspected. HISTORY: John Cathles Hill (1858-1915) was a builder-developer, responsible for building much of Crouch End. Many of the fittings of the pub were manufactured in his workshops. The notable Art Nouveau glass was supplied by Cakebread, Robey. Along with its sister pub by Hill, the Salisbury in Green Lanes, the Queen's Hotel represents the pinnacle of late Victorian pub design and is a remarkable survival, with exceptional joinery and glass.

[Mark Girouard, 'Victorian Pubs' (1975), 124-126].

Listing NGR: TQ3022588565

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Girouard, M, Victorian Pubs, (1975), 124-126

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.