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Operator: Independent
154 Fleet Road, Hampstead, London, NW3 2QX (View on Google Map)
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Nov 2024 reported as reopening in time for Christmas but only temporarily as Star Pubs seek a permanent operator in 2025. This pub reopened on 16th January. It has reverted to its original name - the White Horse. Hours are 12 to 11 every day. No real ale as yet.

This pub was boarded up shortly after 20th March 2020. This is how it was -

After being closed for around a year, now re-opened as Cork & Bottle and a recent visit shows both 2 handpumps and a wall of 8 keg taps so, unlike some of their other operations, this will not be just a a wine bar. (see below).

From Propel

The Gresham Collective is to open its third Cork & Bottle wine bar, in Hampstead. The company is opening the venue in Fleet Road after taking over the former The White Horse pub. It will feature more than 300 bottles of wine while there will also be an outside garden.

This pub was rebuilt in its current form in 1904. An a attractive triangular corner pub, with long pedigree, dating back to 1721, and including customers such as George Orwell, who worked at a bookshop opposite, and Joe Orton. Interior decoration is listed by CAMRA as an historic pub interior of regional importance, including fine oak bar panelling, decorative ceiling, stained glass and floor tiles. Decorative fireplaces, sconces, old prints, Victorian-style lampshades, chandeliers and rococo mirrors lend an elegant ambience to the wooden tables and chairs, interspersed with upholstered furniture. There is a small garden (or outside area with tables and chairs), rest rooms in basement. A neighbourhood gem. Nearest Tube station: Belsize Park.

Information for this venue is provided by the North London Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Cork & Bottle; White Horse; G.E. Aldwinkle's
Local Authority
Camden
Last updated
08/02/2025
Last surveyed
16/01/2025
Leasehold owner
Drumeela Pub Company Ltd
Freehold owner
Heineken UK
Pub ID
NLD/6067
Asset of Community Value

A wedge-shaped pub rebuilt in 1904 which retains much of its original interior including an amazing ceiling. There are two vestibule entrances with some original etched and frosted glazed panels. To the sides of both entrances are areas of multi-coloured tiled floors. Originally the interior would have been divided into a number of bars separated by partitions but none of these survive so it is now a single room in a narrow V-shape with a curved end. In the centre is an island servery reflecting the shape of the pub; the counter is original with sloping front but has been painted grey and has a modern copper top all along it. In the middle is an exceptionally narrow carved mirrored bar gantry / bar-back fitting: this nearly reaches the ceiling and has a broken pediment, clock on the top, and lamp holders.

The star here is the striking geometric and floral, colourful patterned enamel-sectioned ceiling surrounded by a strip of mahogany and with ceiling bosses throughout – a similar example can be seen at the Cambridge, Leicester Square. There are no divisions on this to indicate the former room layout. There are two marble fireplaces which look to be original but one has a modern hearth. Formerly G.E. Aldwinkle’s, its literary customers included George Orwell, who worked at a bookshop opposite, and Joe Orton.

A wedge-shaped pub rebuilt in 1904 which retains much of its original interior including an amazing ceiling. There are two vestibule entrances with some original etched and frosted glazed panels. To the sides of both entrances are areas of multi-coloured tiled floors. Originally the interior would have been divided into a number of bars separated by partitions but none of these survive so it is now a single room in a narrow V-shape with a curved end. In the centre is an island servery reflecting the shape of the pub; the counter is original with sloping front but has been painted grey and has a modern copper top all along it. In the middle is an exceptionally narrow carved mirrored bar gantry / bar-back fitting: this nearly reaches the ceiling and has a broken pediment, clock on the top, and lamp holders.

The star here is the striking geometric and floral, colourful patterned enamel-sectioned ceiling surrounded by a strip of mahogany and with ceiling bosses throughout – a similar example can be seen at the Cambridge, Leicester Square. There are no divisions on this to indicate the former room layout. There are two marble fireplaces which look to be original but one has a modern hearth. Formerly G.E. Aldwinkle’s, its literary customers included George Orwell, who worked at a bookshop opposite, and Joe Orton.

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Close to bus routes
C11, 24, 46, 168
Closest station (1850m)
Kentish Town
Close to London Underground/Overground/DLR (150m)
Hampstead Heath

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