Nag's Head Public House

NAG'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 10 AND 10A, JAMES STREET WC2

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1277358
Date first listed:
01-Feb-1974
List Entry Name:
Nag's Head Public House
Statutory Address:
NAG'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 10 AND 10A, JAMES STREET WC2
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1277358
Date first listed:
01-Feb-1974
List Entry Name:
Nag's Head Public House
Statutory Address 1:
NAG'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 10 AND 10A, JAMES STREET WC2

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NAG'S HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, 10 AND 10A, JAMES STREET 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 30299 81006

Details

TQ 3080 NE and 3081 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER JAMES STREET, WC2 59/25 72/4 Nos. 10 and 10A (Nag's 1.2.74 Head Public House) G.V. II Corner public house and shop. c.1900 by P.E. Pilditch. Red brick with terracotta dressings. Slate roof. Jacobethan style with feature of corner tourelle. 3 storeys and half dormer attic. 3 windows wide, corner tourelle and 4 window return to Floral Street. Ground floor with open shop front (10A) and public house front with corner entrance, returned with secondary entrance at end of Floral Street front, articulated by polished granite pilasters carrying entablature. Upper floors have 3 light mullioned terracotta dressed sash windows, whilst the tourelle has mullioned-transomed with terracotta dressings and elaborate ornament to the aprons. Terracotta entablature over 1st floor carried round tourelle. Short sections of parapet link the pedimented half dormers whilst the tourelle rises higher, finished off with ogee capped dome. Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.

Listing NGR: TQ3029481005

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Legacy System number:
407153
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Survey of London in The Parish of St Paul Covent Garden: Volume 36, Vol. 36, (1970)

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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