24, North Road

This is a former public house, built in 1855 by James Bunstone Bunning for the Corporation of the City of London. The building is constructed of yellow brick in English bond, with Portland stone dressings and a slate roof. It is four storeys high, with a basement, and has four windows facing North Road and five windows to the east, which form the principal facade.

The corners have rusticated stone quoins, and the ground floor has a stone plinth, now painted. There is a flat-arched entrance on North Road and three to the east, one of which is now blocked. The ground floor windows are flat-arched and flanked by slim engaged columns, with the east-facing windows and entrances forming a continuous range. The first-floor windows are round-arched with architraves, cornices on consoles, and panelled spandrels. The eastern windows are one pane deeper than those on North Road, likely related to a now-missing balcony. A sill band runs along the second-floor windows, which have similar detailing but with segmental pediments instead of cornices. The third-floor windows are round-arched with bracketed sills, panelled spandrels and plain stepped pilasters that rise into a plain frieze. A dentil cornice tops the building. All windows retain their original sash design. The roof has two hipped sections running north-south, with panelled and corniced stacks; one along each ridge and two end stacks to the south.

Internally, the only surviving mid-19th century features are cornices with rosette and egg-and-dart ornamentation.