Fox And Anchor Public House

The Fox and Anchor public house, dated 1898, stands on Charterhouse Street in Islington. Designed by Latham Augustus Withall and constructed by W.H. Lascelles and Co., it showcases significant decorative elements designed by W.J. Neatby and manufactured by Doulton and Co. of Lambeth. The building is constructed of terracotta and faience in buff and various other colours, with an obscured roof behind a parapet.

It is a four-storey, three-window range, representing an excellent example of street architecture influenced by Art Nouveau. The ground floor features a recessed wooden pub front between Jacobean-style pilasters supporting an inswept fascia and cornice. This front includes a canted bay flanked by doors with original panelled dado, decorative aprons, an egg-and-dart frieze, and some engraved glass. Upper-floor windows are flat-arched with mullions and transoms, framed by pilasters and cornices of varying designs. The central first-floor window slightly projects behind a stilted round arch supported by small female term figures, with exaggeratedly long voussoirs of white and green faience alternating. Above this, a frieze displays "FOX & ANCHOR" in a central panel, flanked by peacocks and bracketed griffins. The second floor has a shallow canted bay to the central window, with panels above featuring female faces enmeshed in arabesques. The elaborate cornice has a complex profile and finials over the central bay. The third floor has lintels with joggled joints. The shaped gable has a distinctive, almost circular profile filled with coloured faience depicting a fox and anchor flanking a stylised tree. Stylised trees are also incorporated into panels on the inside walls, in front of the wooden frontage on the ground floor, and are signed by Neatby and Doultons. The terrazzo pavement features Art Nouveau ornament.

The interior includes a section of tilework to the dado on the east wall, along with a bar back and bar front which may be original, though they have undergone alterations.