English: On High Holborn in Holborn (within what is now part of the London Borough of Camden).

After leaving the British Museum we were trying to get back to a tube station.

Saw signs for Tottenham Court Road, but ended up going to Holborn Underground Station instead (I was thinking of going to that one anyway).

At least there was no more rain after we left the museum!

A pub called the Princess Louise.

Grade II* listed.

Princess Louise Public House, Camden

   CAMDEN

   TQ3081SW HIGH HOLBORN
   798-1/105/833 (South side)
   15/01/73 Nos.208 AND 209
   Princess Louise Public House

   II*

   Public house. Mid C19. Interior 1891 by William B Simpson and
   Sons who contracted out the work. Yellow brick with stone and
   terracotta dressings.
   EXTERIOR: 4 storeys 4 windows. Double-fronted public house
   ground floor facade of red granite columns and pilasters (with
   masks on the capitals), carrying entablature flanked by
   modified consoles. Central bow window with arched and lozenge
   lights flanked by wide entrances. Recessed sash windows with
   moulded stone heads, enriched impost bands, bracketed sills
   with cast-iron window guards to 2nd and 3rd floors.
   Entablature with dentil cornice and rosettes in frieze.
   Parapet.
   INTERIOR: good interior with decorative, polychrome tile work,
   gold embossed glass by R Morris & Son, stained glass and
   original mahogany bar fittings by WH Lascelles and Co. In
   centre of bar, 4 cast-iron Corinthian columns carrying
   patterned ceiling with moulded cornice and polychrome tile
   frieze decorated with urns and swags. Staircase with elaborate
   wrought-iron balustrade between ground and 1st floor. 1st
   floor bar with good fittings and Art Nouveau dado. Interesting
   contemporary gents WC in basement with marble urinals and
   retaining some tiled walls and fittings. Included II* as a
   rich example of a Victorian public house interior.

   Listing NGR: TQ3043681486

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Source: English Heritage

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