Museum Tavern London, England

Listed Building Data

Museum Tavern has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1330367
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
9 December 1977
Name
MUSEUM TAVERN
Location
MUSEUM TAVERN, 49, GREAT RUSSELL STREET
District
Camden
County
Greater London Authority
Grid Reference
TQ 30134 81584
Easting
530133.9320
Northing
181583.8540

Listed Building Description

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CAMDEN

TQ3081NW GREAT RUSSELL STREET 798-1/100/686 (South side) 09/12/77 No.49 Museum Tavern

GV II

Public house. c1855-64. By William Finch Hill and EL Paraire. Stucco with wooden public house ground floor. Modified French Renaissance style. 4 storeys. 1 window with 1-window splayed corner and symmetrical 5-window return to Museum Street. Public house front with Corinthian pilasters and colonnettes carrying entablature with dentil cornice. Round-arched, recessed openings with panelled dados. Entrance on splayed corner with fanlight and double part-glazed doors. Main entrance on Museum Street with pediment, rectangular fanlight and double part-glazed doors. 1st to 3rd floors with rusticated corner and pilaster strips at angles capped by small segmental pediments. 2-pane sash windows. 1st floor round-arched, architraved, recessed sashes, above which architraved oculi with decorative grills and enriched with swags. 2nd floor segmental-arched architraved sashes. Console bracketed cornice beneath 3rd floor recessed sashes. Coved cornice and blocking course. INTERIOR: retains some original fittings including Classically styled wood back fitting to bar (glass later).

Listing NGR: TQ3013581583