Duchess, London

This pub retains full-height wood panelling on the walls, and a bar counter with detailed marquetry.

Rebuilt by Whitbread in 1958, this is an unusually intact example of post-war pub-fitting. There is one bar on the ground floor which is distinguished by full-height wood panelling on all the walls. Note the attractive interlinked marquetry band on the counter front and the delicate decoration on the ceiling, giving a nod to the elegant Georgian time of Henry Holland, after whom the pub was originally named. The pub is now named after a TV series from the 1970s. Panelling and plaster decoration reappear in the upstairs restaurant where the servery is a modern insertion. Unfortunately, so too is the bar-back downstairs (the finish of the wood and the ornamental detail is rather different from the rest of the woodwork). The door to the stairs and the doors into the restaurant have glazing set in copper strips.