Carlton Tavern

The Carlton Tavern, built in 1920-21 for Charrington & Co, probably by Frank J Potter, was an early inter-war pub, carefully detailed and built of good quality materials showing the vision of a leading London brewery.

It was laid out as an improved pub with a public bar, saloon, and unusually a luncheon and tea room. The site was remarkably well-preserved externally and internally, the rooms remained in the same positions and they still had the original fixtures, fittings and decorative treatments. All the external signage remained too.

Few pubs were built at this date and fewer survive unaltered. It also had great historical interest as an improved pub, illustrative of growing concern at raising the reputation of public houses, by providing family facilities and reducing drunkenness.

It was demolished illegally and without warning in April 2015. Westminster Council may decide to order the developers responsible to rebuild the site.