The Queens is a
grade II* listed
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public house
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and former hotel on the corner of Elder Avenue and
Tottenham Lane
Tottenham Lane is a street in Crouch End and Hornsey in the London Borough of Haringey. The street runs from the centre of Crouch End at the clock tower, north to the junction of the High Street and Turnpike Lane (A504).
Buildings
The street i ...
in
Crouch End
Crouch End is an area of North London, England, from the City of London in the western half of the borough of Haringey. It is within the Hornsey postal district (N8). It has been described as one of "a new breed of urban villages" in London ...
, north London.
History
It was originally built as The Queen's Hotel by the architect and developer
John C. Hill in 1898–1902,
or 1899–1901,
with
Art Nouveau
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stained glass
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by
Cakebread Robey.
Built at the northern end of Hill's recently completed Broadway Parade, it was described in
Pevsner as "one of suburban London's outstanding grand pubs".
Diagonally opposite, in Topsfield Parade, was the
Queen's Opera House, which was opened in 1897 but damaged by bombing during the
Second World War
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and subsequently demolished.
The Queen’s features in the British gangster film ''
Love, Honour and Obey'' (2000) where the main characters perform
karaoke
is a type of interactive entertainment system usually offered in nightclubs and bars, where people sing along to pre-recorded accompaniment using a microphone.
Its musical content is an instrumental rendition of a well-known popular song. I ...
.
Gallery
File:The Queens pub, Tottenham Lane, Crouch End, London (16).jpg, Main entrance
File:The Queens pub, Tottenham Lane, Crouch End, London (15).jpg, Queen's Hotel glass etching
File:The Queens pub, Tottenham Lane, Crouch End, London (29).jpg, Art nouveau style stained glass
See also
*
The Salisbury
References
External links
Grade II* listed buildings in the London Borough of Haringey
Grade II* listed pubs in London
Commercial buildings completed in 1901
National Inventory Pubs
Buildings by John Cathles Hill
Pubs in the London Borough of Haringey
Crouch End
Defunct hotels in London
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