1892 - Cafe Rouge - St John's Wood High Street, London, UK
N 51° 32.007 W 000° 10.231
30U E 696240 N 5712944
This dated 1892 building stands at the junction of St John's Wood High Street and Allitsen Road. Now a Cafe Rouge franchise, with apartments above, the building was constructed as "The Sir Isaac Newton", a public house.
Waymark Code: WMPJ0K
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/05/2015
Views: 2
The building is Grade II listed with the entry at the Historic England website telling us:
Public house. Dated 1892. Red brick, buff terracotta. Felted slate mansard roof. Corner site. 3 storeys, 3 windows wide to St John's Wood High Street, with 2-window return to right. Splayed corner. Round headed windows and doors to ground and first floors. Square headed architrave windows to upper floors. Ground floor windows with ogee dripmoulds, roll mouldings and timber arched glazing bars with etched glass. Cornice above ground floor. Architraves to first floor windows, mullioned and transomed windows with arched sublights. Mullions and transoms above. Terracotta tracery. Cornice above second floor. Parapet. Gabled dormers. Tall corniced chimneys.
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