The Angel PH

The Angel is a public house built in 1926 by the architect Thomas Henry Nowell Parr for Fuller's Brewery. It was extended in 1937 and again around 1970. The building is constructed of brown brick with a clay tile roof.

The pub occupies a corner plot where Angel Lane meets Uxbridge Road, and is roughly square on plan. Its style combines Arts and Crafts influence with neo-Georgian elements. The main north elevation to the Uxbridge Road comprises seven bays arranged 2-3-2, with projecting brick quoins marking the corners and framing the centrepiece. The ground floor features Crittall casement windows and three round-arched doorways, the central one leading to the former off-sales room and flanked by what were once display windows. The first-floor windows are six-over-six-pane timber sashes with flat-arched keystone surrounds. Above the central doorway is a small semicircular balcony. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped, with boarded and sprocketed eaves, and contains two pedimented dormers flanking a square central stack. The east elevation to Angel Lane is dominated by two broad chimney-breasts rising into tall battered stacks. On the west side, facing the yard, is a hip-roofed lean-to containing bottle store and toilets, with the right-hand portion originally an open verandah.

The ground floor contains five separate public rooms, each originally with its own entrance. The saloon bar and public bar occupy the front, separated by the narrow off-sales room. Behind these are the meal room and luncheon room, with the manager's office and hallway between. To the south-east is a free-standing toilet block, originally roofless and entered from the street, later connected to the meal room via a short corridor. A central counter serves all five public rooms.

Interior features are largely unaltered apart from extensions to the luncheon room. Common elements include beamed ceilings and dado panelling formed of close-set vertical studs with a crenellated top rail, characteristic of Nowell Parr's work. The saloon bar retains its original glazed entrance lobby, curved counter with panelled front, and a large brick fireplace with tilework decoration. The counter features outward-opening hatches to access pipes and beer engines, apparently unique to pubs in the London area. The public bar also has its glazed entrance lobby, curved counter with hinged doors, and a cast-iron fire surround grained to imitate hardwood. The luncheon room has been extended southwards twice and contains fielded dado panelling, a grained cast-iron fireplace, a canted bar counter with hinged doors, and an Art Deco coloured glass skylight probably dating from 1937. The central servery retains much of its original bar-back including a mirrored section of 1937, under-bar shelving and a glazed timber screen.

The manager's office has a glazed door and windows overlooking the bars, including a special cashier's window through which cash was passed back to be placed in the safe, which remains in situ. A rear corridor connects via steps and a dumb-waiter to the cellar below and the former kitchen above. The brick-lined cellar, partly from the earlier building, contains two beer-drops and a bottle hoist for moving barrels and crates between street level and servery. The main stair has stick balusters and square newels. The first floor contains the Masons' Room, used for many years by the local Masonic lodge, which has an Art Deco ceramic fireplace. The former kitchen has built-in cupboards, a drying hoist and a large sideboard. The attic floor contains domestic accommodation, some bedrooms retaining fireplaces with decorative iron surrounds.