The Vauxhall Inn

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SO8317 BARTON STREET 844-1/15/5 (South side) 12/03/73 No.174 The Vauxhall Inn

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Includes: The Vauxhall Inn VAUXHALL ROAD. Public house. Late C19. The lower storey faced with glazed, polychrome, ceramic tiles; the upper storey red brick with stone details, hipped slate roof, brick stacks. Arts and Crafts style. A rectangular, double-depth block on south-west corner with Vauxhall Road with a central wing at rear. EXTERIOR: two storeys and cellar; on the ground floor the tiled frontages to Barton Street and to Vauxhall Road in an exuberant Arts and Crafts style with Baroque details. The front facing Barton Street has seven tiled bays with a narrow eighth bay at the right hand end, all defined by panelled pilasters on pedestals with foliated capitals at the springing level of the segmental-arched heads to the doorway and window openings; entrance doorways in the first and in the fifth bays and large windows in the other full-width bays, all with decorative moulded tile surrounds; plain spandrels above the windows and elaborately moulded foliated spandrels above the arches which project on moulded corbels over the doorways; a moulded entablature at first-floor level, with ceramic tile inscriptions in the frieze: THE VAUXHALL INN above the three windows to the left and WINES AND SPIRITS above the two windows to the right; above the entablature over each doorway a swan-neck pediment supporting a finial. In each window a moulded timber frame with a full-width lower light and, above an upper transom, three segmental-arched lights, windows 1, 3, 4 & 5, have acid-etched privacy panel with Mitchell and Butler monogramme; window 2 has plain glass with inner glass panel. On the first floor stone quoins at the angles; four sashes with central vertical glazing bars, two sashes to the left and two to the right of the pediment over the right hand doorway, all in openings with stone quoins to the jambs, stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The front facing Vauxhall Road has on the ground floor four tiled bays with a narrow fifth bay at the right hand end, in the left hand bay a doorway with a pediment above the entablature which is inscribed in tile: THE VAUXHALL INN; on the first floor three sashes; all details on both floors are similar to those on the front to Barton Street. INTERIOR: inner lobby with stained glass to upper panels of glazed screen; lounge bar has panelled bar with turned balusters to cornice with central clock; reset bar-back. HISTORY: the exterior, with its glazed tiles and etched glass, is a particularly good example of late C19 pub architecture. The name of the inn commemorates the Blenheim pleasure gardens (renamed "Vauxhall" in c1832) that were established just to the south of the site in 1812.

Listing NGR: SO8387817946