Description

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TQ3082NE
798-1/91/1291

CAMDEN
PENTONVILLE ROAD (South side)
No.259, Big Chill House

(Formerly listed as No.259 The Bell Public House)

14/05/74

GV
II
Public house. Mid C19. Stucco. Three storeys and cellars. Symmetrical composition of five bays, end bays slightly projecting. Ground floor public house frontage with granite pilasters carrying entablature with dentil cornice. Segmental pediments with enriched tympani over entrances. C20 windows of large panes. Fluted Corinthian pilasters rise through the first and second floors, paired to flank end bays and return, carrying entablature, with wreaths in the frieze above paired pilasters, and dies of parapet without balusters. Architraved, recessed sashes, first floor with cornices and tripartite in the centre and end bays.

INTERIOR: ground floor bar entirely stripped out at time of inspection in January 1995. The exterior is a particularly handsome example of a mid-C19 public house.

Listing NGR: TQ3050882994

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26407136

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper