Queen Adelaide Public House

The Queen Adelaide Public House, on the corner of Uxbridge Road and Adelaide Grove, was built around 1900 in an Edwardian ‘Jacobethan’ style. It is three storeys high and has four windows on the main facade, with a corner bay and turret. The exterior is constructed of red and blue brick, with green and black marble facing on the ground floor. A carved brick frieze separates the ground floor from the first floor. The roof is tiled, and the turret is covered in copper. The Uxbridge Road facade features two projecting gabled bays with vertical timber beams in the gables, and mullion and transom windows, some with painted heads. The gabled bays alternate with flat-fronted bays containing square dormers, and windows with red brick, shallow-arched heads. The Adelaide Grove elevation has three windows with shallow-arched heads, a square dormer, and a stack rising through the roofline with ornamental stone dressing. The ground floor features large, segmental-headed openings, glazed with small panes, and two entrances. Three lanterns are hung on wrought-iron brackets.

Inside, the doors have Arts and Crafts-style hinges and door plates. There are two large bar areas, one of which is toplit. The western bar has two walls panelled in an Arts & Crafts style of linenfold, with a wood-lined niche containing a fireplace surround. This is wooden, with a bevelled mirror on the overmantel, flanked by square colonnettes with moulded caps and flanked by Tuscan Doric columns. The cornice runs into an apsidal niche defined by a moulded hood studded with keystones. A similar fireplace recess is found in the adjacent bar, framed by round wooden columns resting on pedestals with Ionic capitals, and featuring a wooden fire surround with tapered pilasters, a bevelled mirror in the overmantel, a marble-faced inset, and a simple iron grate. Tiled panels depicting sunflowers are located either side of the fireplace. The interior is an unusually rich example of turn-of-the-century design.