one of ... Britain's Real Heritage Pubs
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This pub is taken from the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors, CAMRA's pioneering effort to identify and help protect the most important historic pub interiors in the country. | |||||
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LONDON, GREATER - London W1, Soho, Dog & Duck National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors Part Two 18 Bateman Street, London W1, W1D 3AJ Tel: 020 7494 0697 Public Transport: Underground: Tottenham Court Road / Piccadilly Circus Listed Status: Grade II A gorgeous, small and very popular (i.e. packed) Soho pub, it was built in 1897 to designs by the architect Francis Chambers for Cannon Brewery. The exterior has glazed brick upper floors incorporating a stone carving of the animals mentioned in its name (note also the delightful mosaic of the animals at the Frith Street entrance). The ground floor has polished granite and larvikite facings, which probably date from a 1930s makeover. The interior is also a mixture of Victorian and inter-war work – the former represented by extensive wall-tiling and a couple of large, framed advertising mirrors promoting long-vanished tobacco and mineral water products. The more restrained work of around 1930 is found in the woodwork of the left-hand part. This was also probably the time when the pub was opened up and took its present single-space layout. Its Victorian predecessor would undoubtedly have had several divisions but it is hard to work out exactly how things were. The present servery now blocks a former outside door. |
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