The Assembly House Public House

The Assembly House Public House is a late 19th-century public house, constructed in 1898. Designed by Thorpe and Furniss, with wrought-iron work by Jones & Willis, glass by W James of Kentish Town, interior plasterwork by the Plastic Decoration Company, and joinery by WA Antill & Co., it occupies a corner site. The building is built of red brick and stucco, with slate roofs and dormers, and is designed in a French Chateau style.

The building is three storeys high, with attics and cellars, and features a projecting ground floor frontage. The ground floor has pink and black polished granite pilasters supporting a fascia and cornice, which is punctuated by an elaborate wrought-iron balustrade and segmental-arched, stuccoed gables over the entrances, one of which includes an aedicule containing a figure. There are five entrances, one now blocked, each with half-glazed panelled doors and overlights. The lobbies to the extreme left and right contain French embossed and brilliant cut mirrors, an elaborate wrought-iron screen incorporating the letters "AH", and mosaic floors. The ground floor windows have a top strip of small panes, and most retain their original French embossed and brilliant cut glass in the lower panes. The first floor features a five-light bow window to Kentish Town Road, alongside a canted five-light bay, a two-light window, a four-light bay, and a single light, all with transoms, mullions, and pilaster architraves supporting an entablature with an enriched frieze. The second floor mirrors this design, with an entablature including a modillion cornice and enriched blocking course breaking forward over the bays. The extreme right-hand bay has been replaced with an enriched console. The bowed window on the first floor culminates in a five-light turret with enriched friezes and a conical roof with a finial. On the corner of the building, four dormers have pilaster architraves supporting pediments terminating in shell finials. Above the four-light canted bay facing Leighton Road, there is an attic storey with two two-light windows and pilasters supporting an entablature similar to that below. The high, steep hipped roof over this bay is topped with cast-iron cresting, a pedimented dormer, and a large slab chimney.

The interior is of a high standard and retains original mahogany fittings, French embossed and brilliant cut glass, and mirrors. A ceiling with elaborately moulded plasterwork is in a Jacobean style. A lantern with a raised clerestory is present in the rear bar, featuring stained glass detailing. The front bar has been altered.