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found the pub "lively" with good beer, but especially admired the "beautiful restaurant room" with its skylight and "cherubs to acknowledge its loftiness". It liked the range of tapas and Spanish main dishes, as well as the cheeseboard with both familiar and less usual Spanish varieties.
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The interior, formerly four bar rooms, is now open-plan with a central bar. Parts of the original interior partitioning survive, providing "an unusually rich, turn-of-the-century pub interior". From the north doorway the floor is paved with mosaic, forming a path that leads to the former
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calls it an "attractive Victorian local with unexpectedly large back garden", noting the horseshoe-shaped central counter, the chandeliers and the "splendid skylight". It mentions the "interesting modern food including shared platters".
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under ornamental cornices. The ground floor bar area has big arched windows, and an elaborate corner doorway; the doorway to the north is adorned with ornamental ironwork.
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common; it replaced an earlier beerhouse, in existence by 1842. The "elaborately decorated" building was designed by the pub architects Shoebridge & Rising, and is
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for the attic and cellars below. The main front faces east on to Beaconsfield Road, with three bays, two of them with dormers, separated by a small half-round
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restaurant guide calls the Duke of Sussex "a very traditional pub" with a "lovely patio garden, ideal for the summer".
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The business describes itself as a "pub and dining room" with a beer garden. Its menu includes
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building is "elaborately decorated" to a design by the pub architects Shoebridge & Rising.
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public house
Chiswick
Acton Green
Grade II listed
public house
Clerkenwell
Acton Green
Grade II listed
dormer windows
Diocletian window
stucco
Norman Shaw
Ornamented corner doorway
'AD 1898' brick cartouche
Decorative pediment
Ornamental glass
Ornamental ironwork

billiard room
Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
King George III
Queen Victoria
tapas
Good Pub Guide
Harden's
Time Out


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