Prince Regent, London

Its impressive original Edwardian 1903 exterior was first listed in 1987 (see Historic England's listing details below). The interior was given a bit of a brewery marketing department treatment by Bass Taverns under the guise of a 1990s refurbishment, though the mahogany bar, shelf fittings and torchere lights remain. The Survey of London notes the pub as in existence by 1777. It was known as the Lord Tyrawley from 1774 until 1966. The 2nd Baron Tyrawley (1682-1774) had a long military and diplomatic career, serving in the War of the Spanish Succession in Spain and the Low Countries. He retired as a field marshal, having served as British ambassador to Lisbon and Saint Petersburg, and Governor of Gibraltar and Portsmouth. Apparently well-known as an inveterate womaniser, he's said to have fathered fourteen illegitimate children and his appointments as Colonel of regiments almost as many as the number of his mistresses. Which of his achievements inspired the original naming of the pub is not known. Listing details: Historic England ref 1239813. 'Red brick with stone and faience tile dressings; slate roof. Eclectic Renaissance-Georgian style with corner tourelle feature. 3 storeys and dormered attic. 3-window wide frontages to High Street and Nottingham Street and corner tourelle. Terracotta faced arcaded public house front to both fronts and splayed with entrance across corner, finished off with entablature-fascia. Upper floors have recessed sashes under cambered or flat gauged arches with keystones, those on 2nd floor with aprons. Sashed dormers in attic and in conical capping of tourelle which rises from console-corbels over splayed corner. Sill and head band courses continuous to 1st and 2nd floors; dentil cornice and balustraded parapet carried round in solid on tourelle. Interior retains curved mahogany bar with 2 figured torchère lamps and shelf fittings.'