The Great Northern Railway Tavern is a Grade II listed building in the Haringey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1974. Tavern. 4 related planning applications.
The Great Northern Railway Tavern
- WRENN ID
- ruined-gable-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Haringey
- Constituency
- Hornsey and Friern Barnet MP: Catherine West (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1974
- Type
- Tavern
- Address
- The Great Northern Railway Tavern, High Street N8, N8 7QB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 306 893
- Coordinates
- 51.588, -0.11616
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Great Northern Railway Tavern is an elaborate neo-Jacobean building dating from around 1900. It stands three storeys tall and features three bays that are divided by half-octagonal pilasters, with an oversailing half-bay around the angle to the right. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings. Its high-pitched tiled roof is topped with a tall arcaded balustrade and a shaped centre gable that includes cut brickwork and tile. The windows are mullioned and transomed, with the central window being a five-light design that is slightly bowed. The ground floor is made of red granite and features strapwork pilasters, along with engraved window glass. An ornamental iron grille is located above the left entrance. Inside, the tavern retains original woodwork and elaborate plaster decoration, primarily in the Jacobean style, with some elements of the Arts and Crafts movement. The interior also includes attractive painted glass skylights.
Local climate
The Great Northern Railway Tavern sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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