The King And Queen Public House

The King and Queen Public House is a corner public house dating from approximately 1890 to 1900. Constructed of red brick with brown stone dressings and a slate roof, it exhibits a lively and somewhat French-influenced Gothic design. The building stands four storeys high, with a basement, and occupies a prominent corner site.

The Foley Street facade is four windows wide, topped by a triple group of gabled half dormers. An irregular return extends to Cleveland Street, approximately three windows wide. The corner features a corbelled, conical-roofed tourelle. The ground floor has a painted stone pub front, with a splayed, arched corner entrance and boldly moulded semicircular arched bar windows to both street fronts. These windows have secondary doors flanked by engaged, foliate-capped shafts, with fascias featuring portal-like square columned stops. Upper floors are characterized by pointed arched, shafted sash windows with stone imposts and keys, and corbelled sills. The tourelle sits upon an arcaded and carved base and has three shafted windows per floor, finished with a copper roof and weathervane. Stone sill and impost courses are present throughout. A name panel is located on Cleveland Street, below a shouldered chimney stack. A small, single-storeyed, double-gabled wing projects onto Foley Street.