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Canonbury Tavern

An 1840s tavern on Canonbury Place with fleur-de-lys and pineapples on the garden railings, and its own listed telephone box outside.

Notable building

About 1846, grey brick and stucco, and low for a London pub at two storeys. The front to Canonbury Place is three bays, with a single-storey projection running its whole width - faced in stucco, with flat-arched windows between paired pilasters under a fascia, cornice and parapet - flanked by entrance wings with entablatures of their own. The first-floor windows have stucco architraves and cornices on consoles above them.

The cast-iron railings round the garden are part of the listing, and worth a look on the way in: the finials alternate fleur-de-lys and pineapples, the pineapple being the eighteenth century's symbol for hospitality and an odd thing to find still standing on a pub fence.

The telephone kiosk on the pavement outside is on the register in its own right, as a K2 - the first of the cast-iron boxes, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, of which far fewer survive than of the later K6.

Where
21 Canonbury Place, N1 2NS
Nearest station
Essex Road · 6 min walk

Hours

Monday11:00 – 23:00
Tuesday11:00 – 23:00
Wednesday11:00 – 23:00
Thursday11:00 – 00:00
Friday11:00 – 00:00
Saturday12:00 – 00:00
Sunday12:00 – 23:00

Hours from the page that lists them, checked 20 September 2026.

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