The Engineer Public House and Attached Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. Public house.
The Engineer Public House and Attached Wall
- WRENN ID
- knotted-rubblework-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Holborn and St Pancras
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1999
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Engineer Public House and Attached Wall, Princess Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 283 839
- Coordinates
- 51.54001, -0.1508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Engineer Public House and attached wall is a public house located at 65 Gloucester Avenue, built around 1845-1850 for Calverts the brewers. It is constructed of brown stock brick with a stucco ground storey and dressings, topped with a slate roof, and designed in the Italianate style.
The exterior features a square composition of three storeys on all sides, with a strong bracketed cornice and parapet, and heavy quoins at the corners. The building faces Gloucester Avenue and Princess Road, showcasing a stuccoed facade with windows to the bar on the ground storey, likely added in the later 19th century. This includes projecting iron light fixtures shaped like dragons flanking the entrances. The upper sections have three windows on each of the two storeys, with stucco surrounds and keystones, while the centre windows at first-floor level have swept sides and pediments. The two rear facades are less symmetrical, featuring external chimneybreasts that break through the parapets.
Inside, the bar has lost most of its fittings of special interest, except for the cornices. However, the exterior remains a good example of an early Victorian public house. A high stuccoed wall runs along Princess Road in front of the yard, serving as a subsidiary feature.
Local climate
The Engineer Public House and Attached Wall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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