Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3374SW DULWICH VILLAGE
636-1/56/321 (East side)
The Crown and Greyhound Public House
and attached lamp brackets

GV II

Public house. c1900. Polished granite pilaster and stucco
cement to ground floor. Red brick in Flemish bond to 1st
floor, alternating with stone bands to cross gables;
pargetting and mock box-framing to gables. Hipped roof of tile
to centre section; gable facing to cross gables.
STYLE: Old English.
PLAN: planned to recall a double-ended hall house. 2 and a
half storeys over basement. Five-window range to centre and
one canted bay window to each end bay.
EXTERIOR: ground floor articulated by pilasters with attached
lamp brackets. Entrances in 1st-, 3rd- and 6th-window ranges,
the latter set under a prostyle porch of Composite order with
balustrades above.
At 1st floor the elevation divides into hall house form;
segmental-arched windows to centre range of alternating width
tied by springing band. Soffit to eaves of centre section
ornamented with floral frieze. Pargetting to coved cornice
under box-framed gable, each of which pierced by 2-light
window. Dormer to centre of roof, the centre window of which
topped by box-framed gable.
Stacks to right return, and to right of left-hand cross wing;
gable-facing dormer to left return.
INTERIOR: ground floor divided into 4 roughly identical rooms,
with panelling of original design and Jacobean strapwork to
walls and frieze; beams divide ceiling into smaller panels.
Etched glass to entrance and internal partitions. Bar with
curved ends, continuous through ground floor.

Listing NGR: TQ3319074003

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Crown and Greyhound at Wikipedia
• The Crown and Greyhound official website
• Wikidata Q17361842

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  For the Record
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House