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The Tabard, Chiswick
The block of three buildings containing The Tabard public house (formerly the Tabard Inn) is a Grade II* listed structure in Chiswick, London. The block, with a row of seven gables in its roof, was designed by Norman Shaw in 1880 as part of the community focus of the Bedford Park garden suburb. The block contains the Bedford Park Stores, once a co-operative, and a house for the manager.
The first floor of the pub building is host to the Tabard Theatre.
The block was most likely inspired by Holborn's 1585 Staple Inn, which similarly has a row of seven gables; a further inspiration is the 15th century Sparrowe's House, Ipswich, which has strongly projecting bays, gables, and a cornice above a row of shop windows.
The block, including no. 2 Bath Road, was built in 1880 by the architect Norman Shaw as part of the communal focus of Jonathan Carr's development of the Bedford Park garden suburb; it included the inn, a house for the manager, and the Bedford Park Stores. The block is near the corner with Acton Green, facing St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park, built at the same time as the community's church. The other two community buildings are the school of art, a little further up Bath Road, and the club house, on The Avenue.
A group from the Architectural Association paid a visit in January 1880 and commented that "the buildings will comprise a row or terrace of seven gables, like the old row in Holborn, and will include, beside the stores, a private house for the manager, [and] an old-fashioned inn". The essayist Ian Fletcher writes that the row of seven gables mentioned is presumably Staple Inn, Holborn, but that Shaw probably drew the "heavily projecting bays" from Sparrowe's House, Ipswich. That 15th century building, reworked in 1567, has gables and a cornice; it is decorated inside with ornamental ceilings and panelling.
The 3-storey block containing the stores, manager's house, and pub is built in red brick and roughcast, in Norman Shaw's British Queen Anne Revival (also called English Domestic Revival) style. The roofs are tiled. Of the seven bays on the front, facing Bath Road, three are for the stores and two each for the house, with recessed gables, and the pub. According to Historic England, the Bedford Park buildings were "highly influential" on later suburbs, and were "widely imitated" both across Britain and in the United States. The architectural historian Gavin Stamp comments that Victorian era pub architecture was a "vulgar trade", mainly a matter for specialist architects such as Shoebridge & Rising who for example designed the nearby Duke of Sussex, Acton Green, so that The Tabard and Norman Shaw formed an exception. Stamp saw it as significant that the pub's name evoked "Chaucer and Olde England", while the building looked nothing like "a contemporary gin palace".
The Tabard pub has an entrance porch with Tuscan columns; to either side are windows divided into many small panes. The roughcast first floor of the pub has a pair of projecting bow windows, with small round windows on either side; a third similar gable faces west. A cornice forms an overhang above the windows, topped by two tile-hung gables, each with five small mullioned windows. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described the Tabard as "especially attractive, with tile-hung gables and very original shallow-curved, completely glazed bay-windows". The swing sign was painted in 1880 by Thomas Matthews Rooke, one of the artists resident in Bedford Park. The original sign was lost, but it was rediscovered during the 2016 refurbishment.
The pub, depicted by Thomas Erat Harrison, was among the buildings celebrated in an 1882 illustrated book Bedford Park on the then-fashionable garden suburb.
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The Tabard, Chiswick
The block of three buildings containing The Tabard public house (formerly the Tabard Inn) is a Grade II* listed structure in Chiswick, London. The block, with a row of seven gables in its roof, was designed by Norman Shaw in 1880 as part of the community focus of the Bedford Park garden suburb. The block contains the Bedford Park Stores, once a co-operative, and a house for the manager.
The first floor of the pub building is host to the Tabard Theatre.
The block was most likely inspired by Holborn's 1585 Staple Inn, which similarly has a row of seven gables; a further inspiration is the 15th century Sparrowe's House, Ipswich, which has strongly projecting bays, gables, and a cornice above a row of shop windows.
The block, including no. 2 Bath Road, was built in 1880 by the architect Norman Shaw as part of the communal focus of Jonathan Carr's development of the Bedford Park garden suburb; it included the inn, a house for the manager, and the Bedford Park Stores. The block is near the corner with Acton Green, facing St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park, built at the same time as the community's church. The other two community buildings are the school of art, a little further up Bath Road, and the club house, on The Avenue.
A group from the Architectural Association paid a visit in January 1880 and commented that "the buildings will comprise a row or terrace of seven gables, like the old row in Holborn, and will include, beside the stores, a private house for the manager, [and] an old-fashioned inn". The essayist Ian Fletcher writes that the row of seven gables mentioned is presumably Staple Inn, Holborn, but that Shaw probably drew the "heavily projecting bays" from Sparrowe's House, Ipswich. That 15th century building, reworked in 1567, has gables and a cornice; it is decorated inside with ornamental ceilings and panelling.
The 3-storey block containing the stores, manager's house, and pub is built in red brick and roughcast, in Norman Shaw's British Queen Anne Revival (also called English Domestic Revival) style. The roofs are tiled. Of the seven bays on the front, facing Bath Road, three are for the stores and two each for the house, with recessed gables, and the pub. According to Historic England, the Bedford Park buildings were "highly influential" on later suburbs, and were "widely imitated" both across Britain and in the United States. The architectural historian Gavin Stamp comments that Victorian era pub architecture was a "vulgar trade", mainly a matter for specialist architects such as Shoebridge & Rising who for example designed the nearby Duke of Sussex, Acton Green, so that The Tabard and Norman Shaw formed an exception. Stamp saw it as significant that the pub's name evoked "Chaucer and Olde England", while the building looked nothing like "a contemporary gin palace".
The Tabard pub has an entrance porch with Tuscan columns; to either side are windows divided into many small panes. The roughcast first floor of the pub has a pair of projecting bow windows, with small round windows on either side; a third similar gable faces west. A cornice forms an overhang above the windows, topped by two tile-hung gables, each with five small mullioned windows. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described the Tabard as "especially attractive, with tile-hung gables and very original shallow-curved, completely glazed bay-windows". The swing sign was painted in 1880 by Thomas Matthews Rooke, one of the artists resident in Bedford Park. The original sign was lost, but it was rediscovered during the 2016 refurbishment.
The pub, depicted by Thomas Erat Harrison, was among the buildings celebrated in an 1882 illustrated book Bedford Park on the then-fashionable garden suburb.