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Latitude: 51.5197 / 51°31'10"N
Longitude: -0.1557 / 0°9'20"W
OS Eastings: 528060
OS Northings: 181700
OS Grid: TQ280817
Mapcode National: GBR 99.7D
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.822B
Plus Code: 9C3XGR9V+VP
Entry Name: Barley Mow
Listing Date: 27 July 2000
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1381201
English Heritage Legacy ID: 481561
Also known as: Barley Mow, Marylebone
The Barley Mow, Marylebone
8 Dorset Street
ID on this website: 101381201
Location: Marylebone, Westminster, London, W1U
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: Marylebone High Street
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Marylebone
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Pub
WESTMINSTER LONDON BOROUGH OF
TQ 2881 NW DORSET STREET
1900/44/10218 8
27-JUL-00 Barley Mow
II
Public house. Late C18 with late C19 ground floor frontage.
MATERIALS: stock brick. Brick end stack.
PLAN: corner site. Large front bar with central servery. Small left-hand rear bar. Short corridor at rear axial with the main facade.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. Timber and glass public house frontage with 3 sets of double doors. Late C20 etched glass. Consoles frame the name band fascia. Each upper storey has 3 plain pane sash windows. Moulded cornice and plain parapet. Roof concealed. Return elevation with a multi-paned fixed window on the ground floor; 2 of the lower panes with late C19 etched glass (the third pane a late C20 replacement). On upper floors, 2 plain pane sash windows on each floor. Entrance at rear with late C20 doorcase.
INTERIOR: Bar counter with rectangular panels, small consoles on plain pilasters. Side walls with match board panelling to full height. Attached to left-hand side of the bar counter 2 small, late C19 cubicles with fixed seats and doors. Bar back partly C19. Attached to it a C19 brass tap for drawing gin. Attached to the bar counter 2 brass plates advertising spirits; plate at the rear also states prices. Pot shelf over counter is mid/late C20. Rear bar and corridor have fielded panelling of c.1800.
A metropolitan street corner public house, with good C19 detailing surviving internally and externally. Drinking cubicles were once commonplace in public houses but are now an exceptionally rare survival.
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