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Plaquemine Lock

(formerly Prince Of Wales)

139 Graham Street
Islington
London
N1 8LB

• (020) 7688 1488
• Send an email to the Pub
• plaqlock.com/

Social Links

• Visit Plaquemine Lock on Facebook
• Follow @PlaquemineLock on Twitter

Opening Times

Meal Times

12 - 10 Mon - Fri
10 - 10 Sat
10 - 8 Sun

Owner

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About the Pub

After closing in 2014, reopened in 2017 as Plaquemine Lock operated by Jacob Kennedy who runs a number of restaurants in the West End. Pub serves Cajun and Creole food from Louisiana. The two large murals (in the dining room and above the bar) are made by Jacob’s mother, Haidee Becker. The small paintings and pictures around the pub are various – some are gifts made to the pub, others were in the pub before they renovated it. A good number are by New Orleans folk artist Dr Bob Art. The actual Lock is, unsurprisingly, in Louisiana and it was opened by Jacob's great grandmother, Carrie B Schwing. On CAMRA London Regional inventory.

Planning permission (P2019/0164/FUL) for change of use of the first and second floors of the existing public house to residential was refused by Islington Council. Reasons for refusual relate to lack of affordable housing contributions, not to protection of the public house. The proposal was considered acceptable in design terms, as no alternations would be made to the interior, or exterior of the building. No appeal lodged as of January 2020.

Note about previous PA in planning statement: Planning permission for the comprehensive refurbishment and extension of the premises was granted in May of 2015 (under application P2015/1015), and the public house reopened in late 2016. A condition (Condition 10) was imposed that stated that the floorspace on the upper floors can only be used as residential accommodation in connection to the public house

Historic Interest

Local Listing:- dual frontage, Graham Street and Sudeley Street. Graham Street: Rendered stallriser (and small door), four clear glass windows (half smoked/etched) high transom, above which leaded clear glass.

Regular cask ales

This pub serves 1 regular beer.

• Hammerton N1

Changing cask ales

This pub serves 1 changing beer.

Changing beers typically include:

• Fuller's ESB
• Three Sods --varies--

Updated on 01/09/2020
Last surveyed on 30/10/2017
Branch responsible is North London

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