The Gothic Public House and Numbers 1a and 1b

This is a late 1870s public house, incorporating two shops, built in polychrome brick and stone with Ruskinian Gothic detailing. The building sits on an acutely angled corner of Great Hampton Street. The ground and first-floor windows feature two triangular arched lights, with stiff leaf-capped shafts and quatrefoil panels within the tympana. A serried range of sharply pointed windows are on the second floor. An oriel window projects from the splayed corner above the doorway. The building includes a roll-moulded sill course on the first floor, billet moulding to the second floor and eaves, and a jointed polychrome false collatron below. Dormers, steeply gabled, are present, with a large one to the corner. Rising above the steeply pitched slate roof, and axial to the interior, is an octagonal brick turret with stone lancets, a short slate spire, gablets, and a leaded finial. The public house occupies a prominent corner site overlooking Constitution Hill.