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5. The Fountain
The bar, named after the thing outside its window, with small leaded panes and an oxblood front.
The card
shopfronts 05 of 075. The Fountain
The notes
renderedDark stained oak panelling, oxblood painted timber, hand painted gold leaf. Two bays, small leaded panes, which after six fronts of plate glass is the one that reads as old.
40 m2 on the south side, looking north across the square directly at the fountain it is named for. That is the whole naming logic, and it is the only front whose name describes the view rather than the room.
Small panes do something specific here. Full height glass makes a room part of the square. Leaded panes make it a place you go inside and shut the door on the weather, which is what a bar in a courtyard in England needs to be for eight months of the year.
It gets one of the three outward windows, south facing, so it is the one room on the ground floor that has both the square and the garden.
There is a second bar on the first floor, off the lounge and onto the south terrace, directly above this one. Whether both are needed is a fair question and the answer is probably that the upstairs one is a lounge with a bar in it, not a bar.
The plates
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