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
Constituency
Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Restaurant
Address
Quality Chop House, 94, Farringdon Road, EC1R 3EA
OS grid reference
TQ 312 823
Coordinates
51.52478, -0.11003
Source
Historic England listing

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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.

Local climate

Quality Chop House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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