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No. 2, Short's Gardens

Occupying a key site on the eastern side of The Dials at the junction of Short’s Gardens and Earlham Street, with formal elevations on all three street frontages, the former The Grapes public house of 1835 is listed at grade II.

With a single bay three-storey classically detailed, painted stucco faced elevation to The Dials and similar return elevations to Short’s Gardens and Earlham Street of three bays and two, modestly projecting bays respectively at first and second floor levels with rusticated quoins at the corners below a full cornice and decorative parapet, the building has been restored, and a crowning dome and clock added on the corner facing the Dials to create an imaginative feature.

The external stucco is painted cream to match that of the Crown. The very fine, late-19^th/early-20^th-century end pilasters of the single bay frontage to The Dials and three bay and five bay ground floor storey frontages to Short’s Gardens and Earlham Street survive, faced in very attractive decorated faience tiling featuring vines and bunches of grapes as a reminder of the name of the original pub. The stucco is painted light grey and the window and door joinery painted dark green.

A listed building of particular special architectural and historic interest and considerable townscape value contributing substantially to the character, appearance and significance of the Seven Dials Conservation Area.