Flask Public House

CAMDEN

TQ2887SW HIGHGATE WEST HILL 798-1/5/879 (East side) 14/05/74 Nos.74, 75 AND 76 Flask Public House

GV II

Public house. Possibly early C18, partially rebuilt c1767 by

William Carpenter and with various later alterations and

additions.

EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars with 5 windows. Building to

left, 2 storeys 2 windows and double hipped roof. Brick

refacing with red brick bands between recessed sashes with

gauged red brick flat arches. Ground floor with C20 wooden

porch. Parapet. 2 storey building has multi-colour brick

ground floor and stucco 1st floor. Wooden shopfront of 3

reeded pilasters, frieze and cornice above which is an oval

tablet inscribed "WC 1767". Right hand forward return of

former stabling is formed by the rear of Nos 23 to 25 South

Grove (qv).

INTERIOR: upper bar in later building to left remodelled late

C20. Lower bars in original building, named the Snug and

Committee Room by early 1995, with 1930s matchboard panelling

and fireplaces; these spaces divided by central bar enclosed

by sliding sashes with glazing bars, perhaps a mixture of late

C18 and 1930s work. Behind it a dog-leg stair with turned

balusters on a closed string, c1700, with some panelling.

Upper floors not inspected.

HISTORICAL NOTE: during the early C18 the Manorial Court was

held here.

(Survey of London: Vol. XVII, The Village of Highgate (Parish

of St Pancras part I): London: -1936: 111-113; VCH: Middlesex

6: London: 138).

Listing NGR: TQ2825287288