Flask Public House

FLASK PUBLIC HOUSE, 74, 75 AND 76, HIGHGATE WEST HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1379053
Date first listed:
14-May-1974
List Entry Name:
Flask Public House
Statutory Address:
FLASK PUBLIC HOUSE, 74, 75 AND 76, HIGHGATE WEST HILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1379053
Date first listed:
14-May-1974
List Entry Name:
Flask Public House
Statutory Address 1:
FLASK PUBLIC HOUSE, 74, 75 AND 76, HIGHGATE WEST HILL

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FLASK PUBLIC HOUSE, 74, 75 AND 76, HIGHGATE WEST HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Camden (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 28252 87288

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2887SW HIGHGATE WEST HILL
798-1/5/879 (East side)
14/05/74 Nos.74, 75 AND 76
Flask Public House

GV II

Public house. Possibly early C18, partially rebuilt c1767 by
William Carpenter and with various later alterations and
additions.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars with 5 windows. Building to
left, 2 storeys 2 windows and double hipped roof. Brick
refacing with red brick bands between recessed sashes with
gauged red brick flat arches. Ground floor with C20 wooden
porch. Parapet. 2 storey building has multi-colour brick
ground floor and stucco 1st floor. Wooden shopfront of 3
reeded pilasters, frieze and cornice above which is an oval
tablet inscribed "WC 1767". Right hand forward return of
former stabling is formed by the rear of Nos 23 to 25 South
Grove (qv).
INTERIOR: upper bar in later building to left remodelled late
C20. Lower bars in original building, named the Snug and
Committee Room by early 1995, with 1930s matchboard panelling
and fireplaces; these spaces divided by central bar enclosed
by sliding sashes with glazing bars, perhaps a mixture of late
C18 and 1930s work. Behind it a dog-leg stair with turned
balusters on a closed string, c1700, with some panelling.
Upper floors not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: during the early C18 the Manorial Court was
held here.
(Survey of London: Vol. XVII, The Village of Highgate (Parish
of St Pancras part I): London: -1936: 111-113; VCH: Middlesex
: 6: London: 138).



Listing NGR: TQ2825287288

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
478419
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Sources

Books and journals
Cockburn, J S, King, H P F, McDonnell, K G T, The Victoria History of the County of Middlesex, (1969), 138
Survey of London in The Village of Highgate The Parish of St Pancras Part 1: Volume 17 , (1936), 111-113

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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