THE BLOOMSBURY PUBLIC HOUSE

THE BLOOMSBURY PUBLIC HOUSE, 236, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271630
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: THE BLOOMSBURY PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE BLOOMSBURY PUBLIC HOUSE, 236, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271630
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: THE BLOOMSBURY PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE BLOOMSBURY PUBLIC HOUSE, 236, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE

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 BLOOMSBURY PUBLIC HOUSE, 236, SHAFTESBURY AVENUE

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 30142 81434

Details

CAMDEN

TQ3081SW SHAFTESBURY AVENUE 798-1/105/1852 (South East side) No.236 The Bloomsbury Public House

GV II

Public house. 1904. By C Fitzroy Doll, surveyor to the Bedford Estate and the local District Surveyor. Red brick with white terracotta decoration, slate roof hidden behind parapet and with massive banded stacks. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and cellars. Prominent corner site dominated by 2-storey oriel with copper dome over entrance, with single window to Shaftesbury Avenue and 4 to West Central Street. Oriel of white terracotta with hefty mouldings and decorated panels; other windows above ground floor mullion and transom, those to first floor in continuous white surround; the upper windows linked by bands and those in centre of West Central Street composition lowered. Restored ground floor with late C20 fenestration having heraldic glass set in black polished granite surrounds featuring columns with lion capitals. INTERIOR retains 1904 Arts and Crafts style fireplaces to ground and first floors. Open-well staircase with turned timber balustrades and panelled walls. Some panelling to first floor bar and to rear of ground floor bar, which has original cornice behind later bar back but where the bar counter and the fixed seating has been renewed in historicist style.

Listing NGR: TQ3014481431

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Legacy System number:: 477976
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.