Warwick Castle, Maida Vale

The Warwick Castle

Warwick Place, on an 1860s Ordnance Survey map not long after the street was built. (centre)

The Warwick Castle is a grade II listed public house at Warwick Place, Maida Vale, London, that was built in 1846. It and Warwick Place were named after Jane Warwick, the bride of the original landowner.

History

The pub dates from 1846 and is grade II listed with Historic England along with the whole of the terrace of numbers 1 to 5 Warwick Place on the north side of the street. Among the architectural details mentioned by Historic England in their listing are the scrolled iron lamp and sign brackets for the pub. The pub and the street took their name from the original landowner, who married Jane Warwick of Warwick Hall, near Carlisle, in 1778. Brian Spiller speculates in his book Victorian Public Houses that the pub's "discreet location in a cul-de-sac may have made it a refuge for domestic servants from the neighbouring stucco villas and terraces".

It featured in Maurice Gorham's 1939 book The Local, and his 1949 follow-up volume, Back to the Local, both with illustrations of the pub by the artist Edward Ardizzone, including the front cover of the 1949 volume. Ardizzone lived in Maida Vale for almost his entire life, and Gorham was his regular drinking partner.

Regular customers have included the Welsh drug smuggler and author Howard Marks, and his book Mr. Nice recalls concluding a drug deal there, where half of a consignment of Thai grass was hidden in a car parked outside.

Music entrepreneur Richard Branson was a regular there early in his career in the 1970s, when his office was on a barge on the Grand Union Canal about 100m away. Michael Caborn-Waterfield, known for setting up the first Ann Summers sex shop in 1970, was also a customer, as was the musician Rick Wakeman in the 1980s when he lived in nearby Elgin Mansions.

Gallery

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  The listed terrace of 1 to 5 Warwick Place

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  Scrolled iron lamp and sign brackets mentioned by Historic England

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  Interior showing leaded windows with coloured inserts

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  Interior showing etched windows

See also

• Warwick Avenue

External links

• Official website
• Media related to Warwick Castle, Maida Vale at Wikimedia Commons

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