Asset type
Historic building - Public house and hotel
Local Listing Reference
LLHA0040
Conservation Area (CA)
No CA
Description
Two storey painted brick building with plinth and raised quoins. Hipped roof, now covered with concrete tile, with overhanging eaves and a dentil cornice. Symmetrical elevation to road, with central entrance with paired pilasters supporting a modest entablature. Tripartite hung sashes to ground floor with paired and single sashes to the first floor. Raised lettering set centrally below eaves reads ‘Railway Hotel’. Two small dormer windows to roofslope. The nearby London Road Station was built in 1877; it is likely the hotel was built at the same time. The surrounding housing is also contemporary. All is first shown on the c.1898 Ordnance Survey map.
A. Architectural, design and artistic interest
ii. A good example of a late 19th century Railway Hotel.
C. Townscape interest
ii. Not within a conservation area, it contributes greatly to the streetscene. There is a strong connection with local landmark London Road Station, both visually (the pub is located opposite the station and terminates views down Shaftesbury Avenue) and historically (the pub was originally the Railway Hotel and is contemporary with the Station).
F. Intactness
i. The building retains its design integrity and its visual relationship with the Railway Station
ii. Use as a public house is retained.
Date of inclusion
2015
