Green Man, London

A one-room late Victorian pub with original cut and etched glass and a decorative screen.

Rebuilt in 1899 this is a four-storey building of brick with a ground-floor frontage having Larvikite with red granite pilasters (and capitals painted dark green). Note the elaborate lower window frames containing some etched and cut glass panels with broken pedimented central sections. The pub is effectively one room which retains many original fittings, including a decorative screen situated towards the rear which separated a small snug from the main bar before the double doors were removed. There is a colourful Victorian tiled floor at the front left of the room indicating a partitioned passage to what would have originally been a small bar. On the Bourlet Close side is a door that leads through a short passage to the rear part of the bar so the pub looks to have had four small rooms originally. There is a wooden floor throughout. There is a centrally placed, almost square, servery with Victorian panelled bar counter – note the two different treatments with wooden decoration on the front three sides and round arched panels on the rear part. Very little remains of the bar-back fitting and the pot shelf is modern. The screen has more etched and cut glass panels, the part over the servery has carved heads at the top both sides and a double-faced clock. In the rear area there is an old wooden fire surround with a modern interior. Since a refurbishment which took place in 2020 the seating has changed to high tables and stools in the front area of the pub and new, low unupholstered painted wooden fixed benches with normal-height tables and chairs in the rear area. The green-painted dado-height wooden paneling and the shelf above look like new additions. The decorative plaster ceilings remain but a skylight has been boarded up. The Burton Ales mirror over the fireplace is nice but modern.