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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- 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
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 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477976
- 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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