20, Devereux Court

This end-of-terrace building began as a coffee house around 1676 as part of a development by Nicholas Barbon. It was later remodelled as a public house in 1843. The building's stucco exterior has three storeys and six windows wide, with a three-window south-facing return. The ground floor is rusticated and features two double-panelled and glazed doors, flanked by renewed Georgian-style windows. The upper floors have recessed sash windows. A plat band is positioned above the ground floor, and a moulded sill course features projecting sills on the second floor. The roofline is finished with a cornice and blocking course. A plaque reads "This is Devereux Court, 1676," and a bust of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, is positioned on the corner above a plaque inscribed "Eldon Chambers AD 1844." The Grecian Coffee House, the building's original form, was mentioned in the "Tatler" of 1709 as a popular meeting place for members of the Royal Society; it was one of Barbon’s speculative building projects.