29, Clerkenwell Green

ISLINGTON

TQ3182SW CLERKENWELL GREEN 635-1/73/280 (North East side) No.29

GV II

Formerly known as: Fox and French Public House CLERKENWELL GREEN. Former public house, now restaurant. 1860-1865 added to, and ground-floor extensively altered C20. Possibly by Charles Gray. Different hues of yellow stock brick set in Flemish bond with stone dressings; Welsh-slate shallow pitched roof with projecting bracketed eaves. Ground-floor open-plan cafe; house door to extension leads to upper floors (now restaurant). Quasi-Moorish/Venetian Gothic Style. On curved corner site. Three storeys; 6 bays wide including full-height 3-bay extension on left (2:1:1:2:2:2 windows). Windows diminish in height as they go up; broad expanses of plain brick to intervening bays. 1st floor gauged-brick flat-headed ogee arches to paired 1/1 sashes with engaged columns between each pair; gauged-brick round-headed triple 1/1 sashes to 2nd floor articulated by colonettes and projecting bracketed sills with cast-iron guards. Stucco floral roundels below 2nd-floor sashes. Modillioned cornice to ground-floor; the good brackets are recent additions. Extension with similiar but plainer details. INTERIOR: : denuded and reworked ground-floor with no pub features evident. (Historians File, English Heritage, London Division: 1990-).

Listing NGR: TQ3146682133