Salutation, Hammersmith

Re-built 1910, architect A.P. Killick for Fuller, Smith and Turner Brewery. Three-storey building of red brick with an impressive frontage of faience tiling in exuberant pale blue and mauve including a first floor central tiled panel bearing the legend "Fuller, Smith and Turner. Chiswick 1910", and two oriel windows held up by a cartouche of mauve tiles.

Double entrance doors with stained glass panels in Art Nouveau style and brass plates. Left hand door is now bricked up. The lobby on the right hand side has a blue glazed brick dado with cream tiles above having swagged motifs. On the right is a three-bay glazed screen with a door in the third bay which led to public bar at the front which retains a good wood surround painted gastro-grey colour and cast-iron fireplace.

A 1930s plan shows a layout of a partitioned corridor running all the way to the rear where there is a skylight (now covered over) and a four room pub. A public bar at the front, off to the left were two private bars and a saloon bar at the rear.

A plan from 1966 plan shows that two of the rooms had been amalgamated by 1966, with two further rooms being amalgamated as part of the 1966 refurbishment i.e. the whole of the rear section had been opened-up as a result of removing most of the partitions with only one separating the public bar remaining. The plan also shows new lavatories were installed in the public bar, replacing the left-hand vestibule and closing a second entrance to the public bar. Down the right hand wall from the interior doors (that are relatively modern) is a dado of original fielded panelling now painted gastro –grey.

The three-sided bar back looks to be the 1910 one but originally there was an office around which were two parts of bar back – one facing forward and the other on the return. Probably in 2009 (a planning application was submitted in that year, but is not available for inspection) the office was removed and the two pieces of bar back now make the return section – note how they have wooden pillars at the top i.e. different to the other part of the bar back. The bar counter looks to be an inter-war one with a lino inlaid top however there have been changes – having removed the office creating more space in the servery the counter on the left has been shortened and moved back to give more space for customer. The plan of 1930 shows the return part was level with the fireplace – note the change in the bare wood floor. The changes in c.2009 also saw the removal of a further length of the side passage, leaving only a vestibule next to the remaining entrance door; and the removal of the 1966 lavatories from the public bar.

At the rear in what was the saloon is an original ornate wood surround fireplace with a mirrored mantlepiece all painted a gastro-grey colour. Fielded panelling at the rear is painted a deep pink colour. The skylight at the rear remains but the part glazed screens are modern.

The late Queen Mother visited in 1989 as Patron of the London Garden Society to inspect the floral display.