Brunel, Rotherhithe

Built 1913 by the Wenlock Brewery Co. Ltd. of Shoreditch – both details are in stone at top of the building – it is of brick; originally the Adam & Eve it was renamed in 2015. The four doors into the pub indicate it was originally divided into either four bars or three bars and off sales but all the divisions were lost many years ago. What does remain is an ornate four-bay bar back fitting from 1913 most of which has been sadly painted ‘gastro-grey’. Bays two and four have semi-circular headed mirror panels with gilded decoration on a wide red edging; bay three has some plain mirrors; and bay one doubles as a entrance for staff with smaller versions of the mirrors in bays two and four. There are five columns with decorative capitals that may be of plaster rather than wood; lower shelving has been lost to fridges.

The bar counter also looks to be the original and it too has been painted a ‘gastro-grey’ colour. Dado wall panelling also looks original but it painted a ‘gastro pale green’ colour. Two chunky wood fireplaces situated at each end the L-shaped room could date from the 1960s. Note the ‘Private Bar’ wording in bright blue on frosted background in the panels of twin doors.