THE ROEBUCK PUBLIC HOUSE

THE ROEBUCK PUBLIC HOUSE, 50, GREAT DOVER STREET

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Overview

Public house, late C19, by an unknown architect. Later alterations, mainly to the interior. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393945
Date first listed:: 03-Sep-2010
List Entry Name:: THE ROEBUCK PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE ROEBUCK PUBLIC HOUSE, 50, GREAT DOVER STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393945
Date first listed:: 03-Sep-2010
List Entry Name:: THE ROEBUCK PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE ROEBUCK PUBLIC HOUSE, 50, GREAT DOVER STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE ROEBUCK PUBLIC HOUSE, 50, GREAT DOVER STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Southwark (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 32633 79414

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ GREAT DOVER STREET 636-1/0/0 50 03-SEP-10 The Roebuck Public House

II Public house, late C19, by an unknown architect. Later alterations, mainly to the interior.

STYLE AND MATERIALS: Principally of red-brick with a slate mansard roof culminating in a green copper pavilion roof with curved sides to the south end. In an eclectic free style with Jacobean, Dutch and Classical features.

EXTERIOR: Of flat-iron plan, prominently situated on the corner of Great Dover Street and Trinity Street, the public house is of two storeys plus a tall and elaborate attic storey and cellar. There are three bays to Great Dover Street and four to Trinity Street. The flat-tip of the building is one bay wide with a two-storey canted bay window incorporating wide arched windows on pink granite columns at ground floor, and a shaped gable, behind a pierced strapwork parapet at attic level.

The ground-floor windows are full-height fixed multi-pane windows separated at each bay by pink granite pilasters. The windows to the first and second floors are horned sashes in heavy, painted stone mullion and transom frames with painted quoins to the second floor. The central dormer of each elevation is set within an aedicule with a scallop shell tympanum over the window; those to either side have semi-circular pediments, There is a low stone stall-riser to much of the building and a painted wooden fascia bearing the name of the pub and the brewery, supported by floral and animal motif carved brackets on the short south elevation. On the Trinity Street elevation a late C20 canopy has been fixed to the fascia. Geometrically-decorated stone pilasters with foliate capitals delineate the bays at first floor level.

Chimneys rival the dormers as prominent features of the roof line, with five overall, including two tall stacks situated on the outer sides of the south elevation, framing the pediment, and the pavilion roof behind.

INTERIOR: There is one open-plan public room to the ground floor, along with auxiliary rooms to the rear such as toilets. Cast-iron columns support the ceiling, where original partitions have been removed. The bar, in wood panelling, is 'U' shaped, and likely to be original. There is an original fireplace on the northern wall. An original staircase leads to a public function room on the first floor and auxiliary rooms such as kitchen and store room. The first-floor function room is panelled to dado-rail height, and retains its original fireplace and picture rail. The second floor was not inspected. The basement has been altered since the pub was built but still contains a number of glazed brick light-wells, now blocked at pavement level.

HISTORY: The Roebuck Public House was built in the late C19 and replaced a previous public house of the same name. It is unclear whether or not the building shown on the 1878 Ordnance Survey map is this one, or its predecessor.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The Roebuck, a public house of the late C19, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural composition: a striking bull-nosed building, with a varied roofscape, taking advantage of the awkwardly-shaped but prominent corner site. * Materials and detailing: busily composed of granite, stone, brick, timber and copper, with shell dressings to the dormer tympana and Jacobean-inspired details such as the strapwork balustrade and pilasters. * External intactness: a well-preserved exterior with three public facades.

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Legacy System number:: 508137
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.