London Pubs Group

Campaign for Real Ale

Campaign for Real Ale

Enterprise

38 Red Lion St
Holborn
WC1R 4PN

Although this pub is not a listed building, it is a Two Star pub on the Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) National Inventory with an interior of very special national historic interest, and the description is as follows: "A Victorian four-storey brick-built pub with wide entrance lobbies to left and right with colourful tiled floors and floor-to-ceiling tiling. The double entrance door on the left used to lead into what was a corridor to the rear bar as shown by the left-hand wall being tiled floor to ceiling and including four large plain bevelled mirrors in wooden frames. The partition separating the corridor from the front bar has been lost some years ago. The front bar retains its Victorian bar counter and back fitting which has a row of small mirrors along the top section and other mirrors below. In the centre of the three-bay bar back is a pedimented doorway: fridges have replaced the lower shelves. Right of the entrance is a reused mantelpiece set against the wall. Ornate plaster ceiling.

The rear bar, now largely open to the front one, has a similar back fitting to that at the front: the original counter remains but has evidently been shortened. There are Victorian glazed panels over the doorway that sits between the two areas of the servery. The rear bar has two skylights with modern glass and the fireplace is a reproduction. Closed Sundays."

The WhatPub link is here: WhatPub/Enterprise

The Pub Heritage Group link is here: PHG/Enterprise

The Enterprise featured on the Snobs' Night Out on the Tiles: Evening Crawl of Bloomsbury and Holborn on 15 April 2015.