Albert, London

Grade II listed, Historic England reference 1066148. 1865-67. Yellow brick with red brick dressings and stucco trim, slate roof. 4 storeys. 3 windows wide to Victoria Street, 5-window return with 2 storey 3-window extension. Original, canted public house ground floor frontage with central panelled and glazed doors and flanking windows framed by granite pilasters carrying fascia, cornice and balustrade with ball finials, returned, with coupled pilasters and small pediments above them over the cornice, across the full extent of the ground floor; all the bar windows and glazed doors have excellent cut, engraved and frosted glass. The upper floors have grouped recessed glazing bar sashes linked by ornate iron balconettes on 2nd and 3rd floors; similar fenestration to return. Moulded stucco string over 1st floor; prominent stucco main entablature with very deep cornice and lions' head modillions; one stucco moulded parapet upstand to centre of both fronts with "THE ALBERT" incised on them. Interior retains some c.1900 bar fittings. The pub originally adjoined the former Artillery Brewery.