Museum Tavern is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1977. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
Museum Tavern
- WRENN ID
- veiled-frieze-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1977
- Type
- Public house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CAMDEN
TQ3081NW GREAT RUSSELL STREET 798-1/100/686 (South side) 09/12/77 No.49 Museum Tavern
GV II
Public house. c1855-64. By William Finch Hill and EL Paraire. Stucco with wooden public house ground floor. Modified French Renaissance style. 4 storeys. 1 window with 1-window splayed corner and symmetrical 5-window return to Museum Street. Public house front with Corinthian pilasters and colonnettes carrying entablature with dentil cornice. Round-arched, recessed openings with panelled dados. Entrance on splayed corner with fanlight and double part-glazed doors. Main entrance on Museum Street with pediment, rectangular fanlight and double part-glazed doors. 1st to 3rd floors with rusticated corner and pilaster strips at angles capped by small segmental pediments. 2-pane sash windows. 1st floor round-arched, architraved, recessed sashes, above which architraved oculi with decorative grills and enriched with swags. 2nd floor segmental-arched architraved sashes. Console bracketed cornice beneath 3rd floor recessed sashes. Coved cornice and blocking course. INTERIOR: retains some original fittings including Classically styled wood back fitting to bar (glass later).
Listing NGR: TQ3013581583
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