The Assembly House, Camden
A Grade II listed building since 1985, this is a public house on the corner of Kentish Town Road NW and Leighton Street in Camden, with a rather stormy sky as a backdrop.
It was built in 1898 by Thorpe and Furniss, with wrought-iron work by Jones & Willis, glass by W James of Kentish Town, interior plasterwork by the Plastic Decoration Company and joinery by WA Antill & Co. Its French Chateau style exterior features red brick and stucco with slate roofs with dormers.
It has three storeys, with attics and cellars. The ground floor has pink and black polished granite pilasters supporting fascia and cornice with elaborate wrought-iron balustrade and segmental-arched stuccoed gables over the entrances, with that facing into Leighton Road with an aedicule (small shrine!) containing a figure. The entrances have half-glazed panelled doors and overlights, with the two to extreme left and right with featuring lobbies with French embossed and brilliant cut mirrors to walls and an elaborate wrought-iron screen incorporating the letters "AH" and mosaic floors. The main frontage windows have a top strip of small panes and all frontage windows are still fitted mostly with original French embossed and brilliant cut glass in lower panes.
The first floor has a 5-light bow window to Kentish Town Road, a canted 5-light bay, 2-light window, 4-light bay and single light, all with transoms and mullions and pilaster architraves supporting an entablature with enriched frieze.
The second floor is similar but with entablature having modillion cornice with enriched blocking course breaking forward over bays. The extreme right-hand bay has been replaced by an enriched console.
At the eaves level the bowed window culminates in a 5-light turret with enriched friezes and conical roof with finial. On the corner, four dormers with pilaster architraves supporting pediments terminate in shell finials. Facing into Leighton Road, above the 4-light canted bay is an attic storey with two 2-light windows and pilasters supporting similar entablature to that below. There is a high, steep hipped roof over this bay with cast-iron cresting, pedimented dormer and large slab chimney to side.
The interior is of a high standard, retaining retaining original mahogany fittings, French embossed and brilliant cut glass and mirrors, with an elaborately moulded plaster ceiling in Jacobean style. A lantern with raised clerestory is in the rear bar with stained glass detailing. The front bar has been modified.
Above details all from Historic England's listing for the building.
The Assembly House, Camden
A Grade II listed building since 1985, this is a public house on the corner of Kentish Town Road NW and Leighton Street in Camden, with a rather stormy sky as a backdrop.
It was built in 1898 by Thorpe and Furniss, with wrought-iron work by Jones & Willis, glass by W James of Kentish Town, interior plasterwork by the Plastic Decoration Company and joinery by WA Antill & Co. Its French Chateau style exterior features red brick and stucco with slate roofs with dormers.
It has three storeys, with attics and cellars. The ground floor has pink and black polished granite pilasters supporting fascia and cornice with elaborate wrought-iron balustrade and segmental-arched stuccoed gables over the entrances, with that facing into Leighton Road with an aedicule (small shrine!) containing a figure. The entrances have half-glazed panelled doors and overlights, with the two to extreme left and right with featuring lobbies with French embossed and brilliant cut mirrors to walls and an elaborate wrought-iron screen incorporating the letters "AH" and mosaic floors. The main frontage windows have a top strip of small panes and all frontage windows are still fitted mostly with original French embossed and brilliant cut glass in lower panes.
The first floor has a 5-light bow window to Kentish Town Road, a canted 5-light bay, 2-light window, 4-light bay and single light, all with transoms and mullions and pilaster architraves supporting an entablature with enriched frieze.
The second floor is similar but with entablature having modillion cornice with enriched blocking course breaking forward over bays. The extreme right-hand bay has been replaced by an enriched console.
At the eaves level the bowed window culminates in a 5-light turret with enriched friezes and conical roof with finial. On the corner, four dormers with pilaster architraves supporting pediments terminate in shell finials. Facing into Leighton Road, above the 4-light canted bay is an attic storey with two 2-light windows and pilasters supporting similar entablature to that below. There is a high, steep hipped roof over this bay with cast-iron cresting, pedimented dormer and large slab chimney to side.
The interior is of a high standard, retaining retaining original mahogany fittings, French embossed and brilliant cut glass and mirrors, with an elaborately moulded plaster ceiling in Jacobean style. A lantern with raised clerestory is in the rear bar with stained glass detailing. The front bar has been modified.
Above details all from Historic England's listing for the building.