The Griffin Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 2001. A Victorian Public house. 6 related planning applications.
The Griffin Public House
- WRENN ID
- rooted-nave-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hackney
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 2001
- Type
- Public house
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
735/0/10107
Shoreditch LEONARD STREET 93, The Griffin Public House
23-AUG-01
II The Griffin Public House c.1889, designer unknown. Red brick with extensive stucco dressings and encaustic tile decoration, glazed ground floor front, ornamental cast iron window boxes to second floor windows. Three storeys, three bay front to Leonard Street, five bay return to Ravey Street with lower northern continuation of two storeys with attic, four bays wide. Continuous fascia to both sides. Ground floor with glazed terracotta facing, bearing the name of the Meux brewery's products.
Interior: features include behind-bar mirrored screen with Corinthian columns; boarded ceiling carried on slender cast iron columns; room to rear lined with inscribed mirrors proclaiming the virtues of the drink on offer. Open stairs to rear lead up to former function room on first floor. A characterful pub from the High Victorian period with a good facade and internal survivals of note.
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