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Museum Tavern

A Grade II Listed Building in Holborn and Covent Garden, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5182 / 51°31'5"N

Longitude: -0.1258 / 0°7'32"W

OS Eastings: 530134

OS Northings: 181584

OS Grid: TQ301815

Mapcode National: GBR H9.XY

Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.R3VH

Plus Code: 9C3XGV9F+7M

Entry Name: Museum Tavern

Listing Date: 9 December 1977

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1330367

English Heritage Legacy ID: 477853

Also known as: Museum Tavern, Bloomsbury

ID on this website: 101330367

Location: Bloomsbury, Camden, London, WC1B

County: London

District: Camden

Electoral Ward/Division: Holborn and Covent Garden

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Camden

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: Bloomsbury Way St George

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description



CAMDEN

TQ3081NW GREAT RUSSELL STREET
798-1/100/686 (South side)
09/12/77 No.49
Museum Tavern

GV II

Public house. c1855-64. By William Finch Hill and EL Paraire.
Stucco with wooden public house ground floor. Modified French
Renaissance style.
4 storeys. 1 window with 1-window splayed corner and
symmetrical 5-window return to Museum Street. Public house
front with Corinthian pilasters and colonnettes carrying
entablature with dentil cornice. Round-arched, recessed
openings with panelled dados. Entrance on splayed corner with
fanlight and double part-glazed doors. Main entrance on Museum
Street with pediment, rectangular fanlight and double
part-glazed doors. 1st to 3rd floors with rusticated corner
and pilaster strips at angles capped by small segmental
pediments. 2-pane sash windows. 1st floor round-arched,
architraved, recessed sashes, above which architraved oculi
with decorative grills and enriched with swags. 2nd floor
segmental-arched architraved sashes. Console bracketed cornice
beneath 3rd floor recessed sashes. Coved cornice and blocking
course.
INTERIOR: retains some original fittings including Classically
styled wood back fitting to bar (glass later).


Listing NGR: TQ3013581583

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