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Cittie of Yorke

A medieval-style hall with casks on a gallery above the bar, built in 1923 on a site that has had a pub since 1430.

Historic interior

The back bar is the reason to come: a hall with open timberwork, a clerestory and a great bay window, and along the west side a gallery on thin fluted iron columns carrying enormous casks, with a second gallery above it for reaching them. Behind three arches runs a line of carved booths. A free-standing triangular iron stove stands in the middle with the initials TIK on it, said to have come from Gray's Inn around 1815.

It looks ancient and mostly is not. The fascia claims a pub here since 1430, and the cellars may be seventeenth-century from the coffee house that stood here, but the building is of 1923-4, put up for Henekey's wine shop in a convincing neo-Tudor. Historic England found few traces of anything earlier above ground.

You come in through a flagstoned passage under four-centred timber arches, past a perfectly conventional front bar, which makes the hall behind it land harder.

Where
22-23 High Holborn, WC1V 6BN
Nearest station
Chancery Lane · 1 min walk

Hours

Monday12:00 – 23:00
Tuesday12:00 – 23:00
Wednesday12:00 – 23:00
Thursday12:00 – 23:00
Friday12:00 – 23:00
Saturday12:00 – 23:00
Sunday12:00 – 18:00

Hours from the page that lists them, checked 18 September 2026.

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