The Salisbury

John Cathles Hill built it in 1898–9 as a large pub-hotel, one of a pair he built in Hornsey, the other being The Queen's in Crouch End. It is in a French Renaissance style with shaped gables, ogee domed cupolas and large pedimented dormers, three storeys and an attic and nine windows; two enormous polished granite columns support half-octagonal turrets, and the ground floor is Portland stone on a high grey granite plinth with polished black granite Corinthian pilasters. The first-floor former restaurant and concert room has an elaborate compartmented ceiling with ornate fibrous plasterwork by the Mural Decoration Company and engraved glass by Cakebread & Robey, and the ground floor retains a large billiard room with a top-lit roof, the glass painted with a creeping vine motif. Historic England calls it 'A magnificently elaborate and complete interior' and notes that Hill had his own workshops, where many of the fixtures and fittings for his pubs were made.