Hoop and Grapes Public House is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1991. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
Hoop and Grapes Public House
- WRENN ID
- little-minaret-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- City of London
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1991
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Hoop and Grapes Public House, 80, Farringdon Street, City and County of the City of London, EC4A 2EJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 315 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51543, -0.10499
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hoop and Grapes Public House is a terraced house built around 1720 for a vintner. It was converted into a public house around 1832 and remained in use as such until 1991. The building was re-faced after suffering war damage, featuring multi-coloured stock brick with red brick dressings. It has a double-pitched roof with a penthouse on the south party wall, covered with 20th-century tiles, although the original pegged and numbered timbers remain. The structure has four storeys and cellars, with three windows on the front. The ground floor public house front is likely from the 20th century, while the upper floors retain early 19th-century sash windows with margin glazing, gauged red brick flat arches, and a red brick pilaster strip at the left-hand angle. A parapet crowns the building.
Inside, the ground floor has been altered in the 20th century but still features an 1830 staircase leading to the first floor. There is a notable dog-leg stair from the first floor dating back to around 1720, complete with column newels, base balusters, and pendants, along with a plain panelled dado. The upper floors maintain their original plan form, though some later partitioning has been added. Some original doorframes and a plain panelled door are still present. The first floor contains a wide room across the front of the house, featuring a cornice and skirting from around 1830. The second and third floors have half-height square panelling and original beams. The basement includes brick vaults believed to be part of 17th-century warehousing vaults associated with the formation of the Fleet Canal. The building is situated on part of the site of St. Bride's Burial Ground.
Local climate
Hoop and Grapes Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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