Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3182SE CLERKENWELL ROAD
635-1/74/286 (North side)
06/04/81 No.2
The Hat and Feathers public house

II

Public house. c.1860 with alterations to the ground floor of
c.1900. Polished granite, brick and stucco, roof obscured by
parapet. Four storeys over basement, seven-window range, the
frontage bowed on the corner of Goswell Road and Clerkenwell
Road. Ground floor has a plinth of black polished granite and
slender piers of pink polished granite supporting a fascia
with early C20 glazed and painted panels 'PARTIES CATERED FOR/
HAT AND FEATHERS/ RESTAURANT'; the curved frontage and that in
Goswell Road have original woodwork to the entrances with
scrolled pediments and engraved glass, and leaded glass
overlights to the windows; moulded and bracketed stucco
cornice. On the upper floors the two westernmost bays in
Clerkenwell Road have simple flat-arched windows and a stucco
band to the parapet; the rest of the facade is treated more
elaborately.
The centrepiece on the curved front consists, at first-floor
level, of two flat-arched windows flanked by engaged Ionic
columns with wreathed capitals supporting an entablature which
breaks back and forwards and in its turn supports urn-like
finials flanking the flat-arched second-floor windows. To
either side of the centrepiece are giant stucco pilasters with
ornate foliage capitals and fruit and foliage pendants on
their faces, supporting equally ornate brackets and a moulded
stucco cornice which runs across the whole of this part of the
facade; the outer windows under the cornice in Clerkenwell
Road and Goswell Road have moulded stucco architraves. The
third floor has two pairs of round-arched windows to
centrepiece, deeply recesed between antae, then statues of
Classical female figures on either side, and then flat-arched
windows with moulded stucco architraves. Parapet with
segmental-arched panel to centre flanked by scrolled consoles
and balustrade, and inscribed 'THE HAT AND FEATHERS'.
The interior is much altered but retains dado panelling and
some c.1900 panelled and glazed partitions to the bar facing
Goswell Road, and a bar front, some dado panelling and
staircase with turned balusters in the bar facing Clerkenwell
Road.

Listing NGR: TQ3198482216

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490123

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)