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Duke's Head, Crayford

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53 Crayford High Street, Crayford, DA1 4EJ (View on Google Map)
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Friendly pub with a long bar with large areas at each end. Sport shown regularly at weekends and during the week. Occasional meeting place of the local motorcycle club.

Information for this venue is provided by the Bexley Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
Bexley London Boro
Last updated
08/07/2024
Last surveyed
Pub ID
BEX/005
Asset of Community Value

One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest

Listed status: Not listed

The Duke's Head still has some of its original 1926 fittings, including a plain panelled bar counter creating the three-sided servery, three fireplaces and imitation wood panelling on the walls.

This pleasant, small pub is a 1926 rebuild in the loose Tudor style that was so popular for pubs at the time; the exterior having thin red bricks below and half-timbering above. The Tudor theme continues inside with three brick fireplaces, exposed ceiling joists, and walls ‘panelled’ to two-thirds height: look carefully and you will realise the infill between the timber uprights is artificial, resin-based sheeting made to look like wood (very popular in the Twenties to create a sense of antiquity on the cheap). Now opened up the pub originally had three rooms: a smallish space on the right entered through the front door is clearly distinguishable as small remnants remain of the partition separating it from the main bar on the left. The main bar, rather less obviously, had two spaces, one entered, as now, through the side door and its internal porch on the left, and another from a (now blocked) entrance on the corner. Otherwise modest original fittings include parts of the bar back, and the etched window glass with geometrical patterning is probably also originally from 1926.

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This pleasant, small pub is a 1926 rebuild in the loose Tudor style that was so popular for pubs at the time: thin red bricks below and half-timbering above. The Tudor theme continues inside with three brick fireplaces, exposed ceiling joists, and walls ‘panelled’ to two-thirds height: look carefully and you will realise the infill between the timber members is artificial, resin-based sheeting made to look like wood (very popular in the Twenties to create a sense of antiquity on the cheap). Now opened up the pub was a three-roomer: a smallish space on the right, entered through the front door is clearly distinguishable but the main bar on the left, rather less obviously, had two spaces, one entered, as now, through the side door and its internal porch, and another from a (now blocked) entrance on the corner. Otherwise modest original fittings including a plain panelled counter to the three-sided servery and parts of the bar back: the etched window glass with geometrical patterning is probably also original to 1926.

General information about historic pub interiors
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Monday
Noon - 11:30pm
Tuesday
Noon - 11:30pm
Wednesday
Noon - 11:30pm
Thursday
Noon - 11:30pm
Friday
Noon - 12:30am
Saturday
Noon - 12:30am
Sunday
Noon - 11:30pm
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Transport
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TfL: 492
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