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Buildings where the building is the reason to go: the inside-out, the Art Deco, the concrete, and the ones that make no sense at all until somebody explains them.
A speculative builder's showpiece: the man who laid out these streets also made the pub and most of what is in it.
Victorian & EdwardianYou can go insideFree
Also in Pubs.
John Cathles Hill was a builder-developer, and this building is what that meant in 1898. He put up much of this part of north London - the streets, the terraces, the parade the pub stands in - and many of the fittings inside came out of his own workshops. It was not designed for a client and bought in. It is the showpiece of the estate, made by the firm that made the estate.
The style is French Renaissance and the whole point of it is display: shaped gables, ogee-domed cupolas, a central tower under a wrought-iron crown, and two polished-granite columns of a size you would expect on a bank, carrying half-octagonal turrets above the entrance. The lobbies are tiled and floored in mosaic behind wrought-iron screens. Inside, a compartmented ceiling sits on cast-iron columns; upstairs there is a first-floor concert room with a fibrous-plaster ceiling by the Mural Decoration Company and engraved glass by Cakebread & Robey.
He did it twice. The Queens at Crouch End is the other, and Historic England calls the pair of them the pinnacle of late-Victorian pub design. What is unusual is not the ambition - plenty of Victorian pubs are showy - but that the ambition and the execution belonged to one firm, which is why nothing here looks ordered from a catalogue.
| Monday | 16:00 – 23:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 16:00 – 23:00 |
| Wednesday | 16:00 – 23:00 |
| Thursday | 16:00 – 23:00 |
| Friday | from 16:00 |
| Saturday | from 14:00 |
| Sunday | 14:00 – 22:00 |
Hours from the page that lists them, checked 18 September 2026.
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