Former Beehive Tavern, Streatham High Road
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Former Beehive Tavern, Streatham High Road
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: Unknown
Built as a coffee house and working men's lodgings in 1878-79 to the designs of Ernest George and Harold Peto. George lived in Streatham for some years and designed several buildings in the area. Note the Queen Anne-style white-painted sash windows, the pargetted dormers, and the pronounced chimney. (The ground floor projection is C20th.) Grade II listed. It is within the Streatham Common Conservation Area. It is now used as solicitors' offices and a day nursery. The C19th inn next door, the Pied Bull, has one less rival to worry about, a situation lent piquancy by virtue of the coffee house originally being built by the temperance movement to entice people away from alcohol.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.41964
Longitude
-0.12835