The Hat and Feathers Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1981. Public house. 7 related planning applications.
The Hat and Feathers Public House
- WRENN ID
- lone-spire-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury MP: Emily Thornberry (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1981
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Hat and Feathers Public House, 2, Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5PQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 319 822
- Coordinates
- 51.52345, -0.09893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hat and Feathers public house dates to circa 1860, with alterations to the ground floor around 1900. It is constructed of polished granite, brick, and stucco, with a roof hidden behind a parapet. The building is four storeys high, with a basement, and has a seven-window facade that bows on the corner of Goswell Road and Clerkenwell Road.
The ground floor features a plinth of black polished granite and slender piers of pink polished granite, supporting a fascia with early 20th-century glazed and painted panels reading ‘PARTIES CATERED FOR / HAT AND FEATHERS / RESTAURANT’. The curved frontage, along with that facing Goswell Road, retains original woodwork to the entrances, including scrolled pediments and engraved glass, alongside leaded glass overlights to the windows. A moulded and bracketed stucco cornice tops the ground floor.
The two westernmost bays in Clerkenwell Road have simple flat-arched windows, with a stucco band running to the parapet. The central section of the curved frontage is distinguished by two flat-arched first-floor windows flanked by engaged Ionic columns with wreathed capitals, which support an entablature that curves and is topped with urn-like finials. Above these are flat-arched second-floor windows. Giant stucco pilasters with ornate foliage capitals and fruit and foliage pendants are positioned either side of the centrepiece, supporting ornate brackets and a moulded stucco cornice. The outer windows under this cornice, in both Clerkenwell Road and Goswell Road, have moulded stucco architraves. The third floor has pairs of round-arched windows recessed between antae, statues of Classical female figures on either side, and flat-arched windows with moulded stucco architraves. The parapet features a segmental-arched panel, flanked by scrolled consoles and a balustrade, inscribed 'THE HAT AND FEATHERS'.
The interior shows significant alteration, but retains dado panelling. In the bar facing Goswell Road are panelled and glazed partitions from around 1900, alongside a bar front. The bar facing Clerkenwell Road retains some dado panelling and a staircase with turned balusters.
Local climate
The Hat and Feathers Public 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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