The Palace Bar — Fleet Street

Attached two-bay four-storey public house over basement, built c.1890, with shopfront to front (south) elevation. Hipped slate roof hidden behind red brick parapet terminated by carved limestone scrolls, having carved limestone coping and heavy cornice, red brick chimneystacks with clay pots. Red brick walls, laid in Flemish bond, having carved limestone string course. Square-headed window openings with continuous carved limestone sill courses and carved limestone keystones, having six-over-six pane and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Shopfront comprising polished red granite pilasters on polished granite bases with swagged scrolled limestone brackets supporting timber fascia and cornice. Square-headed door openings to recessed porches having mosaic tiled floors and granite steps, timber panelling to walls and ceilings, timber panelled and half-glazed timber panelled doors with overlights framing canted bay having square-headed display windows, round-headed window to front having glazed spandrels, flanked by fluted pilasters, on panelled stall risers. Late nineteenth century interior with timber tongue and groove panelling to walls, stained glass roof lights and lantern to rear room, mahogany bar with snug to south end. Inlaid brass plaques to pavement to front. Located on north side of Fleet Street.