2 St John's Hill / (Falcon Road in 1891)

Battersea

020 7228 2076

https:///thefalconclaphamjunctionlondon

https://whatpub.com/falcon

Above photo circa 2015.

Above photo 2015.

Above sign 2015.

Refurbished in spring 2014. Reopened on 14th May 2014.

Operating as M&B Nicholson's pub (2022).

The island bar counter is one of the longest in the country.

Historic Interest.

Grade II listing:- Late 19th Century. Purpose built hotel at corner of St John's Hill and Falcon Road. Continuous frontage to both roads. With a total of 9 varied bays wide; 3 storeys plus garret. Red brick with stone enrichments. Ground floor public house facade with stone and granite pilasters. Central entrance on curve of the corner beneath semi-circular fanlight and prominent pediment. Subsidiary entrances at each end. Elaborate stone architraves to first and second floor windows. Iron window guards and stone pediments to second floor windows only. Giant pilasters with stylised Corinthian capitals run between first and second floors, supporting heavily bracketed cornice with a panelled brick parapet and stone ball decoration. The 3 entrances are accentuated at roof level by brick gables at each end decorated with stone copings and balls, and in the centre, by a truncated pyramidal roof surrounded by an iron balcony and flagstaff. Prominent chimneys. Internally rich with cut brilliant glass behind the bar display and in partitions between the bars. Leaded lights to the draught lobby, original mirrors and full-storey cast iron columns with stylised Corinthian capitals.

The borough dates from the London Government Act of 1899, and includes the greater part of the original ecclesiastical parish of St. Mary Battersea. Under the same Act Penge, formerly a hamlet of Battersea, was constituted a separate urban district...the curious anomalies of local government led to Penge's formation as a separate urban district and its transfer to the county of Kent in 1900. This would join London with neighbouring parishes in 1965. Penge was a wooded district, over which the tenants of Battersea Manor had common of pasture.

LICENSEE LIST

TAVERNER Charlotte 1891+ (age 50 in 1891)

Census