Yorkshire Grey, London

Grade II listing:- Public house on a corner site. 1877. By J W Brooker; interior altered late C20. Pale stock brick with stucco dressings. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, cellars and attics. 5 windows to Theobald Road and single window splayed angle. Ground floor public house frontage with pilasters and panelled risers and arched glazing bars to window heads. Entrance on angle with overlight having an arched glazing bar set with a roundel. Deep continuous fascia with a sculptured horse's head above the entrance. Central upper floor windows set within a shallow, full height, round-arched recess; slightly wider windows. 1st floor casements with blind boxes flanked by brick pilasters which support brackets, to 2nd floor sills with cast-iron guards, and flank aprons with roundels. 2nd floor 4-pane sashes, with rounded angles, flanked by pilasters supporting segmental pediments with projecting imposts; central window with fluted pilaster strips, shaped blind box and enriched pediment with an inset ball. That on corner with a balcony and enriched round-arched head. Above the pilaster flanked 3rd floor windows with lugged sills and anthemion enriched stucco heads, a deep cornice of scrolled brackets with blocking course incorporating corresponding attic windows, flanked by pilasters and having pediments with inset balls; central window with large anthemion. Above the entrance bay, in a pedimented brick and stone aedicule, a bas relief of a mounted soldier in Yorkshire Gray uniform and with drawn sword, in the background a castle; carved by "Mr Plows" in 1878. INTERIOR: retains only cornices from late C19 interior.