The Hat And Feathers Public House

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.