The Dog And Duck Public House

The Dog and Duck Public House is a public house located at 18 Bateman Street, City of Westminster, built in 1897 by Francis Chambers for Cannon Brewery. The building features cream glazed brick with white limestone dressings and bands around the window heads and sills, topped by a hipped plain tile roof. It stands four storeys tall with an attic, presenting a one-bay elevation to Frith Street and a three-bay elevation to Bateman Street.

The exterior includes a bracketed egg and dart cornice above the ground-floor marble fronts, with a fascia that has inscribed lettering above segmental-arched "clerestory" windows adorned with decorative cut glass. The segmental-arched windows and half-glazed panelled doors retain their original fittings. There are two-storey canted bay windows featuring 3-light stone-mullioned and transomed windows, one facing Frith Street and two facing Bateman Street, which are recessed into the wall plane. The left-hand bay on the Bateman Street elevation has 3-light moulded stone-mullioned windows with leaded lights. The third floor showcases segmental-arched 2-light transomed windows and a dentilled cornice above a plaque depicting a dog and duck. The building is finished with a stepped cornice and gable dormers with bargeboards.

Inside, the pub retains an exceptional late Victorian interior, characterized by elaborate tilework, mirrors, and high-quality joinery. The long and narrow space features front and back bars separated by a staircase leading to the upper floors. The walls are lavishly tiled, and the Roman-style mosaic floor depicts a dog alarming a duck at the entrance. The front bar includes the original bar opposite a fine arrangement of mirrors, including a narrow mirror depicting the dog alarming the duck, situated to the right of two principal mirrors advertising Virginia cigarettes and Brighton seltzer water, signed "S Trenner and Son." The back bar features a large overmantle mirror above a marble fireplace, adjacent to a door with cut glass decoration set in a panelled screen leading to the casement.