LORD HIGH ADMIRAL PUBLIC HOUSE

LORD HIGH ADMIRAL PUBLIC HOUSE, VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1246696
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:: LORD HIGH ADMIRAL PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LORD HIGH ADMIRAL PUBLIC HOUSE, VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1246696
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:: LORD HIGH ADMIRAL PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LORD HIGH ADMIRAL PUBLIC HOUSE, VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD

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:: LORD HIGH ADMIRAL PUBLIC HOUSE, VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD

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 29557 78554

Details

TQ 2978 NE WESTMINSTER VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD (south west side)

105/10143 Lord High Admiral Public House

GV II*

Public house, attached to Charlwood House (q.v.). Design won in competition in 1961 by John Darbourne; structure built 1964-67, interior fitted out 1968-9; architects Darbourne and Darke, Geoffrey Darke the partner in charge, with W D Shepherd, Chief Architect to Ind Coope Ltd., associated architect. Loadbearing brickwork with concrete floors, hand-made red and purple multi-coloured facings used outside and in. Pub entered via private patio. Large timber windows with timber door to right; above fascia a planting box part of the composition fronting first-floor publican's flat. Public house on three half-levels. Entrance on raised ground floor, whence steps lead down to main bar on half-landing, with steps at rear to basement games room (originally intended for dining). Bar with original timber counter and back bar. Timber ceiling with some areas of cork. The combination of exposed brick, some painted, and timber boarding is characteristic of the late 1960s architect-designed public house, blending modern planning with traditional materials. This was an exceptional example when it was built, and was extensively reviewed; it remains little altered and is a remarkable survival. It is also an important and integral element of Darbourne and Darke's award-winning and epoch-making Lillington Gardens scheme. It replaced a public house of the same name which was demolished. It was admired for 'its consistency of approach' (Architects' Journal, 15 April 1970).

Listing NGR: TQ2956178551

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Legacy System number:: 472005
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Architects Journal' in 12 August, (1961), 156-68
'Architectural Review' in January, (1966), 61
'Architects Journal' in 15 April, (1970), 925-40

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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.