Old Bull & Bush, Hampstead

Grade II listing:- Public house. Reputedly built as a farm c1645, licenced 1721, rebuilt with modern extensions 1923-24 in similar style to the old: this included the rebuilding of the ground-floor bay windows and Venetian window originally on the ground floor. Additions 1970s by Roderick Gradidge. Brown brick with hipped slated roof having brick modillion eaves cornice and tall slab stacks with blind arches. 2 storeys and cellars. Slightly projecting centre of 3 windows, 2 windows to each flanking extension. Round-arched entrances in outer bays with wooden doorframes, shaped brackets supporting hoods, fanlights and part-glazed doors; keyed oculus to each penultimate bay. Ground floor centre with 2 canted bay windows. Upper floor with gauged red brick flat arches to slightly recessed sashes with exposed boxing; centre window round-arched with radial pattern to head. Facade centre with parapet rising above eaves, segmental-arched in centre with statues of sphinx at either end. INTERIOR: retains old features, and good inter-war fittings. Frequented by the painters Hogarth, Gainsborough, Reynolds and playwright, Garrick.