Cosy pub, opposite The Royal Free Hospital, acquired by Young's in 2008, dating from 1860 as the Roebuck Hotel - which is still evident from the upper fascia. Furnished internally with wooden tables and chairs, some upholstered, and sofas, low lighting, soft music. Conservatory and garden at the back, lower room available to let. Tables outside in front allow you to watch the comings and goings but need to be vacated by 9.45pm.
Historic Interest
Grade II listed:- Public house & hotel. Late 1860s. Stucco with channelled stucco ground floor. 3 storeys and cellars. Symmetrical facade of 5 windows plus 1-window extension over left hand carriage entrance. Public house openings round-arched with keystones and linked by impost bands; doorways, in outer bays, with fanlights and panelled doors. Upper floor sashes in round-arched openings with architraved heads, 1st floor with keystones, linked by impost bands; pilasters articulate bays, 1st floor with rusticated bands supporting an entablature with projecting modillion cornice, 2nd floor plain pilasters with enriched heads supporting entablature (inscribed Roebuck Hotel) and dentil and modillion pediment having a painted sculpture roebuck in the tympanum. Extension has architraved tripartite sashes; 1st floor with console bracketed cornice, 2nd floor with mask keystone. Entablature with dentil and modillion cornice. INTERIOR: now converted to a single bar, retains massively overscaled cornices with modillion decoration.
This Pub serves no changing beers and 3 regular beers.
Roebuck, London