Old Pack Horse
The Old Pack Horse is a Grade II listed public house in a prominent position on the corner of Chiswick High Road and Acton Lane in Chiswick, London.[1]
Architecture edit
The current structure was built in 1910[2] by the architect Nowell Parr, the house architect of Fuller, Smith & Turner, who ran the local brewery.[1] It is a red brick structure of three storeys, with decorative terracotta and coloured tiles. It has remained unaltered since its construction.[1] The building historian Nikolaus Pevsner writes that it has "plenty of jolly terracotta detail and bowed ground-floor windows".[3]
The English Heritage listing describes it as the "best preserved example of a public house by the Fuller, Smith and Turner house architect".[1]
History edit
The first pub on this site, the "West Country Packhorse", was granted a licence in 1759. It was renamed as the "Lower Pack Horse" in 1790, and again to be the "Pack Horse" sometime before 1811. It was acquired by Fuller, Smith & Turner in 1808.[2]
The Friends of Turnham Green cited the overshadowing of the pub in their successful objection to the development of the whole of the adjacent part of Chiswick High Road and area behind it in 2015.[4] In 2024, the pub was extensively refurbished, reopening on 4 April.[5]
- Interior, 2008
- Terracotta wall decoration with swags
- Terracotta corner decoration with golden griffin emblem
References edit
- ^ a b c d Historic England. "The Old Packhorse public house (1240781)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
- ^ a b Clegg, Gill. "Pubs". Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
- ^ Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1991). The Buildings of England. London 3: North West. London: Penguin Books. p. 406. ISBN 978-0-14-071048-9. OCLC 24722942.
- ^ "FoTG Objection - Chiswick High Road Action Group" (PDF). Chiswick High Road Action Group. 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
- ^ "New Look for the Old Pack Horse". Chiswick W4. 6 April 2024. Retrieved 6 April 2024.