Barley Mow
BARLEY MOW, 8, DORSET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381201
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Barley Mow
- Statutory Address:
- BARLEY MOW, 8, DORSET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381201
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Barley Mow
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARLEY MOW, 8, DORSET 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:
- BARLEY MOW, 8, DORSET STREET
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 28060 81700
Details
WESTMINSTER LONDON BOROUGH OF
TQ 2881 NW DORSET STREET 1900/44/10218 8 27-JUL-00 Barley Mow
II
Public house. Late C18 with late C19 ground floor frontage. MATERIALS: stock brick. Brick end stack. PLAN: corner site. Large front bar with central servery. Small left-hand rear bar. Short corridor at rear axial with the main facade. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. Timber and glass public house frontage with 3 sets of double doors. Late C20 etched glass. Consoles frame the name band fascia. Each upper storey has 3 plain pane sash windows. Moulded cornice and plain parapet. Roof concealed. Return elevation with a multi-paned fixed window on the ground floor; 2 of the lower panes with late C19 etched glass (the third pane a late C20 replacement). On upper floors, 2 plain pane sash windows on each floor. Entrance at rear with late C20 doorcase. INTERIOR: Bar counter with rectangular panels, small consoles on plain pilasters. Side walls with match board panelling to full height. Attached to left-hand side of the bar counter 2 small, late C19 cubicles with fixed seats and doors. Bar back partly C19. Attached to it a C19 brass tap for drawing gin. Attached to the bar counter 2 brass plates advertising spirits; plate at the rear also states prices. Pot shelf over counter is mid/late C20. Rear bar and corridor have fielded panelling of c.1800. A metropolitan street corner public house, with good C19 detailing surviving internally and externally. Drinking cubicles were once commonplace in public houses but are now an exceptionally rare survival.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481561
- 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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