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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
Tagged with: Pub
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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