Plough, London

Grade II listed:- Public house and 7 terraced houses with shops. 1855-64. By William Finch Hill. Stucco with rusticated pilaster strips separating each house and at angles. Modified French Renaissance style. 4 storeys. 3 windows each. No.27 with 2 storey extension and 5 window return to Little Russell Street. No.27, The Plough, with wooden C19 public house ground floor. Pilasters support a mutule cornice. Segmental headed openings with panelled dados. Left hand entrance in Little Russell Street in early C19 shopfront with console bracketed cornice. Nos.29-34 with C19/early C20 shopfronts. 1st floor round-arched, architraved, recessed 2-pane sashes, above which architraved oculi enriched with swags. 2nd floor console bracketed sill bands to segmental-arched architraved sashes. Console bracketed cornice beneath 3rd floor architraved sashes with keys. No.27 with cornice surmounted by balustraded parapet; Nos 28-34 with plain parapet. INTERIORS: bar in two parts. Front bar much renewed but retains some early C20 panelling. Rear bar has early C20 counter, arched screen with later infilling and more wall panelling to side and rear.