Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NE CAMDEN WALK
635-1/59/136 (North East side)
01/10/90 No.2
The Camden Head public house

GV II

Public house. Dated 1899 in carved panels on the external
stacks to Camden Walk and Islington Green; partial restoration
by Roderick Gradidge for Maxwell Joseph, 1969. Red brick with
stone dressings, roof of Welsh slate. Four storeys; the pub
has two elaborate fronts of almost equal importance: four
windows to Camden Walk, three to Islington Green. The
ground-floor frontage stands forward of the rest of the
building: four bays to Camden Walk and two-and-a-half to
Islington Green with one angled entrance bay at the corner.
Corinthian columns flanking flat-arched windows, some of which
are bowed, with round-arched glazing bars and engraved and
faceted glass, some replaced in exact replica in 1969;
decorative wrought-iron work to entry to former saloon bar.
The upper windows have unusual heads of intersecting segments
and circles, and cornices to first and second floors; two
small gables at the junction of the two main fronts with ball
finials in place of acroteria with carved roundels and the
initials 'CD' (?). Corbelled external stacks run from the
first floor between the second and third bays to Camden Walk
and between the first and second bays to Islington Green;
larger shaped gables to the ends of either front; mansard roof
with decorative wrought-iron work to the corner.

The ground floor of the pub has lost its original divisions
into public and saloon bar and its present form is due to the
restoration of 1969. It consists of a single space with an
island bar, part or most of which is original. Sections of the
original partitions with good engraved and faceted glass were
reused to form alcoves; tilework to the former Saloon Bar
entrance with decorative transfer-printed tiles below the dado
rail and to the frieze; original fireplace in the north-east
wall; upstairs, in the present dining room, two late C19
cast-iron fireplaces, and stained and painted glass panels to
the upper sashes in the style of the Aesthetic Movement; these
windows were introduced in 1969 from a demolished house in
Marlborough Crescent, Bedford Park, West London; more such
glass on the first-floor landing.
(Information from Roderick Gradidge).

Listing NGR: TQ3168183565

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Camden Head Public House official website
• Wikidata Q26585613

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)