Description

CAMDEN

TQ2685NW PERRIN'S LANE
798-1/26/1849 (South East side)
King William IV Public House

GV II

Public house. c1830-37. Stock brick with stone cornice and
band, roof not seen behind parapet. 5-bay elevation to
Perrin's Lane with 3-bay return to Hampstead High Street.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars. Moulded stone cornice and
flat first floor band. 5-bay elevation to Perrin's Lane with
projecting ends, intermediate bays blind on upper storeys,
with recesses treated like the surrounding windows with gauged
brick heads and stone sills. Second floor windows and that in
centre of first floor have sashes with glazing bars, first
floor windows to either side with long casements opening on to
cast-iron balconies; all first floor windows with external
louvred shutters. Ground floor with tripartite sash windows to
projecting ends; centrepiece treated as symmetrical shopfront
with pair of bowed windows with small panes having pointed
tops over heavily moulded panels either side of double
entrance doors set under broad rectangular top light with
tracery formed of intersecting circles. Elevation to Hampstead
High Street similar, with sashes to ground and second floors
(centrepiece of latter blind) and first floor casements with
shutters giving on to balconies. Central door in moulded
architrave surround.
INTERIOR comprises four main bars linked by archways and C20
screens, served by central C20 bar counter. Walls with some
tongue and groove panelling, most of which is late C20
replication in bar areas but which survives better on stairs
to first floor. Early C20 fireplaces.
Included as a good and prominent surviving example of an early
C19 public house, little altered externally.

Listing NGR: TQ2649585652

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26432008

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)