King William IV Public House

KING WILLIAM IV PUBLIC HOUSE, PERRINS LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1139055
Date first listed:
11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:
King William IV Public House
Statutory Address:
KING WILLIAM IV PUBLIC HOUSE, PERRINS LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1139055
Date first listed:
11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:
King William IV Public House
Statutory Address 1:
KING WILLIAM IV PUBLIC HOUSE, PERRINS LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
KING WILLIAM IV PUBLIC HOUSE, PERRINS LANE

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 26489 85659

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2685NW PERRIN'S LANE
798-1/26/1849 (South East side)
King William IV Public House

GV II

Public house. c1830-37. Stock brick with stone cornice and
band, roof not seen behind parapet. 5-bay elevation to
Perrin's Lane with 3-bay return to Hampstead High Street.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars. Moulded stone cornice and
flat first floor band. 5-bay elevation to Perrin's Lane with
projecting ends, intermediate bays blind on upper storeys,
with recesses treated like the surrounding windows with gauged
brick heads and stone sills. Second floor windows and that in
centre of first floor have sashes with glazing bars, first
floor windows to either side with long casements opening on to
cast-iron balconies; all first floor windows with external
louvred shutters. Ground floor with tripartite sash windows to
projecting ends; centrepiece treated as symmetrical shopfront
with pair of bowed windows with small panes having pointed
tops over heavily moulded panels either side of double
entrance doors set under broad rectangular top light with
tracery formed of intersecting circles. Elevation to Hampstead
High Street similar, with sashes to ground and second floors
(centrepiece of latter blind) and first floor casements with
shutters giving on to balconies. Central door in moulded
architrave surround.
INTERIOR comprises four main bars linked by archways and C20
screens, served by central C20 bar counter. Walls with some
tongue and groove panelling, most of which is late C20
replication in bar areas but which survives better on stairs
to first floor. Early C20 fireplaces.
Included as a good and prominent surviving example of an early
C19 public house, little altered externally.


Listing NGR: TQ2649585652

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
477764
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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