SHIP AND SHOVEL PUBLIC HOUSE

SHIP AND SHOVEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 2 AND 3, CRAVEN PASSAGE WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1220801
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: SHIP AND SHOVEL PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SHIP AND SHOVEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 2 AND 3, CRAVEN PASSAGE WC2

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Date:: 2001-08-24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1220801
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: SHIP AND SHOVEL PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SHIP AND SHOVEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 2 AND 3, CRAVEN PASSAGE WC2

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:: SHIP AND SHOVEL PUBLIC HOUSE, 2 AND 3, CRAVEN PASSAGE WC2

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 30239 80415

Details

TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CRAVEN PASSAGE, WC2 83/25 9.1.70 Nos 2 and 3 (Ship and Shovel PH)

G.V. II

Former pair of terrace houses, as one public house. c.1731-32, refaced late C.18 and with late C.19 public house front. Yellow stock brick, slate roof. 3 storeys and dormered mansard. 5 windows wide (3 windows to No. 2 and 2 to No. 3). Ground floor has wooden public house frontage with panelled and glazed doors and bar windows articulated by Corinthian pilasters carrying entablature-fascia. Upper floors have recessed glazing bar sashes under flat arches with stucco voussoirs. Parapet with coping. Pub interior retains good late C.19 mahogany bar fittings and some engraved glass. As originally built part of the Craven family's C.18 development of their Brewhouse property; c.f. Craven Street.

Survey of London; Vol. XVIII.

Listing NGR: TQ3021480386

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Legacy System number:: 209367
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Survey of London' in The Strand The Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields Part 2: Volume 18 , , Vol. 18, (1937)

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