Quality Chop House is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. Restaurant. 2 related planning applications.
Quality Chop House
- WRENN ID
- swift-moat-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Country
- England
- Type
- Restaurant
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Quality Chop House is a terraced house that also functions as a restaurant, built in the 1890s by Roland Plumber. The restaurant was established in the early 1900s, featuring a facade that may have been slightly altered later. The upper floors are constructed of buff bricks laid in Flemish bond. The glazed shopfront is canted on either side of a central mahogany door, with twelve square lights on each side. The left side displays the phrases 'Quick Service', 'London's noted cup of Tea', and 'civility', while the right side features 'snacks', 'Progressive Working Class Caterers', and 'Best Quality'. Above the shopfront is a painted wooden sign.
Inside the restaurant, there are nine bays of oak benches and oak tables that are bolted to the floor and wall, arranged in two lines with a central passage. The benches have parallel backs and end balusters, and both the benches and tables are supported by ornate cast-iron legs. The walls are adorned with linenfold timber panelling and shelf brackets, and the ceiling features a frieze of decorative tin panels known as 'steleorite', along with a central pendant gas heater. A dog-leg staircase in the corner has end scrolls and turned balusters. The kitchen is located at the rear, accessible through a central door that leads to an oak screen with composite pilasters and a sliding glazed hatch. This establishment is likely a unique example of an early 20th-century working-class restaurant, retaining all its high-quality fittings.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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