The Old Queen's Head Public House
THE OLD QUEEN'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 44, ESSEX ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195587
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Queen's Head Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD QUEEN'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 44, ESSEX ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195587
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Queen's Head Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD QUEEN'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 44, ESSEX ROAD
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:
- THE OLD QUEEN'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 44, ESSEX ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Islington (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 31851 83742
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3183NE ESSEX ROAD 635-1/59/379 (East side) 20/09/54 No.44 The Old Queen's Head Public House
II
Public house. c.1830, c.1900, and incorporating early C17 interior features from the former building. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond, stucco, roof obscured by parapet. Three storeys, three-window range to Essex Road and three to Queen's Head Street with one window on the curved corner. Ground-floor pub front of c.1900 with five bays to each side: pilasters, segmental-arched windows, engraved glass and original doors, except that the corner entrance is now a window and the first two bays in Queen's Head Street are bricked up. Upper windows flat-arched with pediments on consoles to first floor in Essex Road and cornice on console to corner; first bay of windows in Queen's Head Street blank. Moulded stucco sill band with palmette ornament on Essex Road front; 6/6 sashes to Essex Road and corner; stucco cornice and stepped parapet. INTERIOR. A ceiling of early C17 modelled plasterwork with bands of scrolling floral ornament forming panels to enclose emblems, some in cartouches survives above bar area of the public bar. In the north-west corner the wall is panelled to either side of an early C17 chimneypiece of stone and wood. The surround to the hearth is of stone, with term figures to either side supporting an entablature with narrative, perhaps mythological, scenes carved in two panels under a frieze of strapwork. Above, the chimneypiece continues in wood with three term figures, decorative panels between, decorative frieze and bracketed cornice.
Listing NGR: TQ3185183742
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368879
- 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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