This Pub is Permanently Closed
Comfortable corner pub with ground floor bar and an overspill bar upstairs that can be hired for functions. Several old and appropriately nautical photographs on display. A handy venue for pre-theatre refreshments in a back street between the Haymarket and Lower Regent Street, or a rest from intense shopping. The pub dates from the late 1920s, designed by William George Ingram and Oliver architects for Albert James Knowland, of Knowland and Bros, licensed victuallers and caterers, in what had been the St James's Market area. Originally the public house was on the ground floor, called Punch House, with a restaurant on the first floor. Sadly the Crown Estate's plans for comprehensive development of the area will see this convivial watering hole, featured in Maurice Gorham's Back to the Local 1949, disappear under a monstrous sprawling up-market office, retail and restaurant/bar scheme. TV sports. No food after 8pm on Sunday or Monday.
Reported as closed at end Sept 2013.
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