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Devonshire Arms, London (Dev)

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Operator: Independent
33 Kentish Town Road, Camden Town, London, NW1 8NL (View on Google Map)

Mock Tudor Style pub.This former goth pub now caters for all music types Goth, Punk, Metal, indie and Rock. In 2014 there was a return to real ale after a period of 8 to 10 yrs absence. Renamed as the "Hobgoblin" in c2008 and as the "Devonshire Arms" in c2013, though it's always had the "Devonshire Arms" signage hanging and most people refer to it as the "Dev". The pub was bought by Tom Maloney from Enterprise around 2012 and he describes it as an alternative rock venue. The Maloney family also operate the nearby Oxford Arms.

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Previous Names
Hobgoblin
Local Authority
Camden
Last updated
05/10/2024
Last surveyed
08/07/2014
Pub ID
NLD/6010
Asset of Community Value

The Devonshire Arms was rebuilt on a new site in 1927 by Courage & Co Ltd who had acquired the pub having bought the Camden Brewery. Retains fully intact 1960s 'Take Courage' signwriting on exterior along with Courage Cockerel sign. It is of three-storeys with the two top floors of mock-Tudor / half timbering and on Hawley Street side a single-storey narrow extension. The pub has staged live music and taped tracks played to heavy metal/goth genres.

Originally three rooms (including a Bottle & Jug?) it is now a U-shaped single bar having lost partition walls. The walls have fielded panelling to three-quarters height all around which has been painted black. External windows leaded throughout with some replaced. Bar counter has fielded panelling front painted black and still has an almost continuous heating pipe with short section missing where broken at point where hatchway door remains. Bar back plainly mirrored with original leaded panels but some replaced. Has remnants of a central dumb waiter now defunct/part-replaced with fridges as has most shelving likewise leaving approx. one-third intact.

An original fireplace with a brick surround has a more modern insert but overall effect spoilt by protruding, somewhat crude, bench seating structure, built possibly post-war, and joined to bar back. Main doorway used today, to Kentish Town Road, retains its vestibule, and near the former separate vestibule entrance on Hawley Crescent side (now used as a fire exit) is an interesting fixed bench seating likely to be original. Original narrow door to gents, with matching panelling, retained but similar doorway to ladies is wider. Facilities within both updated.

The Devonshire Arms was rebuilt on a new site in 1927 by Courage & Co Ltd who had acquired the pub having bought the Camden Brewery. Retains fully intact 1960s 'Take Courage' signwriting on exterior along with Courage Cockerel sign. It is of three-storeys with the two top floors of mock-Tudor / half timbering and on Hawley Street side a single-storey narrow extension. The pub has staged live music and taped tracks played to heavy metal/goth genres.

Originally three rooms (including a Bottle & Jug?) it is now a U-shaped single bar having lost partition walls. The walls have fielded panelling to three-quarters height all around which has been painted black. External windows leaded throughout with some replaced. Bar counter has fielded panelling front painted black and still has an almost continuous heating pipe with short section missing where broken at point where hatchway door remains. Bar back plainly mirrored with original leaded panels but some replaced. Has remnants of a central dumb waiter now defunct/part-replaced with fridges as has most shelving likewise leaving approx. one-third intact.

An original fireplace with a brick surround has a more modern insert but overall effect spoilt by protruding, somewhat crude, bench seating structure, built possibly post-war, and joined to bar back. Main doorway used today, to Kentish Town Road, retains its vestibule, and near the former separate vestibule entrance on Hawley Crescent side (now used as a fire exit) is an interesting fixed bench seating likely to be original. Original narrow door to gents, with matching panelling, retained but similar doorway to ladies is wider. Facilities within both updated.

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Monday
3:00pm - Midnight
Tuesday
3:00pm - Midnight
Wednesday
3:00pm - Midnight
Thursday
3:00pm - 1:00am
Friday
2:00pm - 2:00am
Saturday
2:00pm - 2:00am
Sunday
3:00pm - Midnight
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Current beers

This Pub serves 1 changing beer (recently Watney's Pale) and 1 regular beer.

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Facilities
Live Music Live Music
Thur-Sat and some Sundays
Garden Garden
Enclosed Pavement
Features
Real Ale Real Ale
Transport
Closest station (1100m)
Kentish Town
Close to London Underground/Overground/DLR (150m)
Camden Town
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