Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3181NE CHARTERHOUSE STREET
635-1/77/231 (North side)
29/09/72 No.115
Fox and Anchor public house

GV II

Public house. Dated 1898 on gable. Designed by Latham Augustus
Withall and built by W.H.Lascelles and Co.; the decorative
panels on the inside external walls of the ground floor, and
perhaps most or all of the decorative front, designed by
W.J.Neatby and manufactured by Doulton and Co of Lambeth.
Terracotta and faience, of buff and various other colours;
roof obscured by parapet. Four storeys, three-window range. An
excellent example of street architecture and decorative
tilework under the influence of Art Nouveau. Ground-floor
wooden pub front recessed between Jacobean-style pilasters
supporting inswept fascia and cornice; the wooden front with a
canted bay flanked by doors with original panelled dado,
decorative aprons, egg-and-dart frieze and some engraved
glass. Upper windows flat-arched with mullions and transoms
and moulded architraves, each floor framed by pilasters and
cornice of different design; central first-floor window
slightly projecting behind a stilted round arch mounted on
small female term figures, with exaggeratedly long voussoirs
of white and green faience alternately; frieze over first
floor with 'FOX & ANCHOR'in central panel, confronting
peacocks in outer panels, and two griffins bracketed out over
central bay; second floor has shallow canted bay to central
window, panels over with female faces enmeshed in arabesques;
cornice with elaborate profile in plan and finials over
central bay; third floor has lintels with joggled joints.
Shaped gable of eccentric, almost circular profile filled with
ornament in coloured faience of a fox and anchor flanking a
stylised tree. Stylised trees also in panels to inside walls
in front of wooden frontage on ground floor which are signed
by Neatby and Doultons. Terrazzo pavement with Art Nouveau
ornament. The interior has a stretch of tilework to the dado
on the east wall, and a bar back and bar front which may be
original, but have been altered.
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3186481882

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Fox and Anchor at Wikipedia
• Fox and Anchor official website
• Wikidata Q17361847

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