Old Shades Public House

The Old Shades Public House, located at Nos 37 and 39 Whitehall, is a public house built in 1898 by architects Treadwell and Martin. It features a stone-faced exterior and a slate roof, showcasing a tall, narrow, shaped gabled frontage in a distinctive Free Style late Flemish-Gothic style, influenced by the works of Wilson and Townsend. The building stands four storeys high and is two windows wide.

The ground floor has an oak "half-timbered" front with intricately carved spandrels and a four-centred arched doorway. The upper floors are adorned with paired, cross-mullioned, leaded casements and coupled four-centred arch lights on the third floor. These are framed by sharply profiled mullion-piers that end in slender, sunflower finials, with serpentine cornices extending over cartouches above the third-floor window heads, which also feature carved enrichment on the aprons. The gable is elaborately shaped and enriched, with the coping sweeping down and delicately scrolling on the wall face flanking the third floor. This building is a notable example of Edwardian architecture.