Museum Tavern
MUSEUM TAVERN, 49, GREAT RUSSELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330367
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Museum Tavern
- Statutory Address:
- MUSEUM TAVERN, 49, GREAT RUSSELL STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330367
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Museum Tavern
- Statutory Address 1:
- MUSEUM TAVERN, 49, GREAT RUSSELL STREET
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:
- MUSEUM TAVERN, 49, GREAT RUSSELL STREET
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 30134 81584
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3081NW GREAT RUSSELL STREET
798-1/100/686 (South side)
09/12/77 No.49
Museum Tavern
GV II
Public house. c1855-64. By William Finch Hill and EL Paraire.
Stucco with wooden public house ground floor. Modified French
Renaissance style.
4 storeys. 1 window with 1-window splayed corner and
symmetrical 5-window return to Museum Street. Public house
front with Corinthian pilasters and colonnettes carrying
entablature with dentil cornice. Round-arched, recessed
openings with panelled dados. Entrance on splayed corner with
fanlight and double part-glazed doors. Main entrance on Museum
Street with pediment, rectangular fanlight and double
part-glazed doors. 1st to 3rd floors with rusticated corner
and pilaster strips at angles capped by small segmental
pediments. 2-pane sash windows. 1st floor round-arched,
architraved, recessed sashes, above which architraved oculi
with decorative grills and enriched with swags. 2nd floor
segmental-arched architraved sashes. Console bracketed cornice
beneath 3rd floor recessed sashes. Coved cornice and blocking
course.
INTERIOR: retains some original fittings including Classically
styled wood back fitting to bar (glass later).
Listing NGR: TQ3013581583
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477853
- 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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