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

• The Crown and Greyhound at Wikipedia
• The Crown and Greyhound official website
• Wikidata Q17361842

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)