A historic pub interior of regional importance
Listed Status: Not listed
17 Needham RoadTel: (020) 7229 1550
Email: info@cockandbottlew11.com
Website https://www.cockandbottlew11.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/cockandbottlew11
Real Ale: Yes
Lunchtime Meals: Yes
Evening Meals: Yes
Nearby Station: London Paddington
Station Distance: 1500m
Public Transport: Near Railway Station (Paddington) and Bus Stop
Bus: Yes
View on: Whatpub
This friendly, street-corner pub built in 1850 has one outstanding feature – a bar-back of exceptional ornateness. It has a series of round columns with florid Corinthian capitals below a broad frieze terminating in a band of ornament. The various round-headed projections on the columns have long been a mystery. Near the bottom of each is also a short round stub. And if you take a close look at the servery you’ll see it has been cut back around the modern opening to the inner room. A column has been removed. On the underside of the cornice you’ll spot a hole. It’s possible that all this means that there was once a gravity-feed system for spirits and wines (housed above the bar) which were fed down the pipes in the hollow columns to cocks on the stubs. Note also the pretty stained glass panels of swans which relate to the old name of the pub which changed in the late 1980s. The snob screens to the rear room are a modern bit of re-Victorianisation.