78 Highgate

The Shakespeare Inn Between Yard 72 Highgate and Shakespeare yard/Sandes Hospital (80 and 80a Highgate). LA9 4HE

History

Listed Building Grade II: list entry number: 1318982 first listed on 14th April 1969.

"Public House incorporating shop. Dated 1830, with initials T.S. (for Thomas Simpson), on carriage arch keystone; by John Richardson. Wet-dashed rubble on hammer-dressed plinth; 1st-floor sill band. Graduated slate roof; rendered end chimneys. Three storeys, three bays; 2-bay basement shop. Symmetrical corniced wooden shop front has steps down to two part-glazed doors (one now used as window) with window to each end. Two 16-pane sashes above; carriage arch on left has moulded imposts and projecting keystone to elliptical head. C20 entrance to Inn is up steps on north side in rear passage. Three sashes with glazing bars to each upper floor (16-pane to 1st floor)."