This Pub is Closed Long Term
A modern/traditional pub sign has appeared on the frontage - and since July 2019 - which reads Pakenham Arms Ale & Cider House; not sure what's going on.
Owned the Convivial Pub Company until 2013 when it closed suddenly and re-opened as a part of "the Old Angel Pub Company", which has pubs in Oxford and Nottingham. A large and spacious pub with a centre bar, which is popular with locals, office staff, and postal workers from nearby Mount Pleasant Sorting Office. Popular for watching football, it can get crowded, especially at weekends and particularly for the Gunners. There is seating available in a pavement patio area for when the weather is fine. Buses: 19, 38, 341 Rosebery Avenue; 63 Farringdon Road / Kings Cross Road. Closed again summer 2014 supposedly to allow a staircase to be installed for access to flats above.
Historic Interest
Grade II listing:- GV II Former public house. Late C19. Red brick with rusticated stucco dressings. On a corner site, designed to match earlier terraces in Calthorpe Street.
Three storeys. One window, one window on bowed corner and two-window return to Calthorpe Street. Public house frontage of red granite pilasters carrying entablature; entrance on corner with part glazed panelled door and similar panels to either side. Second and third floor window bays stepped forward from corner, with rusticated quoins. First floor windows; outer bays architraved, tripartite sashes with cornices and segmental pediments; inner bays architraved sashes with cornices and triangular pediments. Moulded second floor sill band. Architraved second floor sashes, outer bays tripartite. Entablature and projecting cornice following the stepping of the bays.
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