The Plough (Number 27)

The Plough (Number 27) is a public house and part of a row of seven terraced houses with shops, built between 1855 and 1864 by William Finch Hill. It is designed in a modified French Renaissance style and constructed from stucco, featuring rusticated pilaster strips that separate each house and mark the corners. The building stands four storeys high, with three windows on each floor. Number 27 includes a two-storey extension and a five-window return to Little Russell Street.

The Plough has a wooden ground floor typical of 19th-century public houses, supported by pilasters that hold up a mutule cornice. The openings are segmental-headed and have panelled dados. The left-hand entrance on Little Russell Street features an early 19th-century shopfront with a console bracketed cornice. The adjacent houses, Numbers 29-34, have shopfronts from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

On the first floor, there are round-arched, architraved, recessed two-pane sash windows, above which are architraved oculi adorned with swags. The second floor has console bracketed sill bands supporting segmental-arched, architraved sashes. A console bracketed cornice is found beneath the third floor's architraved sashes, which feature keys. Number 27 has a cornice topped with a balustraded parapet, while Numbers 28-34 have a plain parapet.

Inside, the bar is divided into two parts. The front bar has been largely renewed but retains some early 20th-century panelling. The rear bar features an early 20th-century counter, an arched screen with later infilling, and additional wall panelling on the sides and rear.