25/01/22 - Closed for conversion to a Stonegate managed pub. 05/07/22 reopened - The web site promised three real ales - Doom Bar, Purity Mad Goose and Timothy Taylor Landlord. Only the last of these appears to be on the bar currently. Reverted to tenanted by the end of 2023.
Had reopened in May 2016 after 18 months closed ad eventually cask beer disappeared. Just up the road from Stoke Newington station, this is a large, imposing street corner pub built in robust pub style, with granite columns and bow windows. Largely modernised inside, with grey and bare brick decor, new bar counter, but retaining old window frames and internal columns with capitals.
Historic Interest
Local Listing:- Public house, built 1892, to replace previous public houses (first licence granted 1732). Four storeys, including slate covered mansard top floor, with octagonal brick tower on corner and pedimented dormers. Octagonal tower has round arched window heads and pilasters, both of red brick, and pyramidal slate coloured roof. Brickwork to first and second floors is yellow London stock with extensive red brick details. Two wide shallow canted bays on Stamford Hill frontage, chamfered corner to Windus Road. Red brick flat arches, with keystones, red dentil courses, quoins and inset terracotta panels. Timber sash windows, painted cream,with top sashes divided into small square panes. Original public house shop front with large bowed clear glass bays between slender marble columns surmounted by pedimented console brackets and miniature urns.
This Pub serves no changing beers and 1 regular beer.
Birdcage, Stoke Newington