The Old Queen'S Head Public House

The Old Queen's Head Public House is a public house located on Essex Road in Islington, dating from around 1830 with later alterations around 1900, and it incorporates early 17th-century interior features from a previous building. The structure is built of yellow brick in Flemish bond and has a stucco finish, with a roof that is obscured by a parapet. It stands three storeys tall and features a three-window range facing Essex Road and another three facing Queen's Head Street, with one window on the curved corner.

The ground-floor pub front, dating from around 1900, has five bays on each side, with pilasters, segmental-arched windows, engraved glass, and original doors. Notably, the corner entrance has been converted into a window, and the first two bays on Queen's Head Street have been bricked up. The upper windows are flat-arched, with pediments on consoles above the first floor on Essex Road and a cornice on a console at the corner; the first bay of windows on Queen's Head Street is blank. There is a moulded stucco sill band with palmette ornament on the Essex Road front, and the windows feature 6/6 sashes, along with a stucco cornice and stepped parapet.

Inside, the public bar area retains a ceiling with early 17th-century plasterwork, featuring bands of scrolling floral ornament that form panels enclosing emblems, some of which are in cartouches. In the north-west corner, the wall is panelled on either side of an early 17th-century chimneypiece made of stone and wood. The hearth surround is of stone, flanked by term figures that support an entablature adorned with narrative, possibly mythological, scenes carved in two panels beneath a frieze of strapwork. Above this, the chimneypiece continues in wood, featuring three term figures, decorative panels in between, a decorative frieze, and a bracketed cornice.