Talli Queen, Shepherds Bush

Built c.1900 in Edwardian ‘Jacobethan’ style of four storeys with a corner turret and black marble facing on the ground floor. Note the carved brick frieze that wraps around both sides of the building and separates the ground from the first floor. Inside there are two bar areas separated by a wall the rear part of which has been converted into a (modern) folding partition and there is an island servery.

On the left the bar counter is the original but painted black. This room has two walls panelled to two-thirds height in an Arts & Crafts version of linenfold, with a wood-lined niche all painted dark green containing the fire surround. This is wooden and contains a bevelled mirror on the overmantel flanked by Voyseyesque square colonnettes with moulded caps, and flanked by Tuscan Doric columns. The room is lit by a skylight and there is also a modern food bar on the left.

The room on the right has more of the bar counter but the panelling looks more modern and the front is painted black. It has a similar fireplace recess framed by round wooden columns resting on pedestals, with Ionic capitals. Wooden fire surround with tapered pilasters, bevelled mirror set in overmantel above. Marble-faced inset, simple iron grate. Green tiled panels either side of fireplace depicting sunflowers and the walls have fielded panelling to two-thirds height painted dark green. This room is lit by a more modest skylight. Vestibules looks modern.