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Operator: Punch Pubs & Co
3 Windmill Hill, Enfield, EN2 6SE (View on Google Map)
  • Historic Interior

Renovated both inside and out February 2025; a well equipped garden is ready for any kind of weather. Reported July 2025 cask ale is not always available.

The pub has two completely separate rooms both accessed from the street and one with a garden entrance. They boast several unique features such as a fireplace in the right-hand bar, curved bay windows etched with representations of a wheatsheaf and art nouveau style flowers and brown glazed brick facing.

Across the road from railway station.

Big Smoke Brewery held the pub for a short period but relinquished it in May 2023.

Information for this venue is provided by the Enfield & Barnet Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
Enfield
Last updated
22/08/2025
Last surveyed
20/02/2023
Leasehold owner
unknown
Freehold owner
Punch Pubs & Co (Punch Taverns)
Pub ID
ENF/7224
Asset of Community Value

One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest

Listed status: Not listed

This pub still has two completely separate rooms, each only accessed from the street, with inter-war features such as the fireplace in the right-hand bar which has delightful Art Nouveau tiling.

Here we have an attractive ground-floor frontage with a couple of curved bay windows and brown glazed brick facing. The etched windows have representations of a wheatsheaf and Art Nouveau-style flowers.

The bar on the right was originally a small public bar with a tap room behind it, but were combined in the 1950s. The door on the left of the public bar has a glass panel informing us that this used to lead to the ‘jugs and bottles’ bar, but the partition separating it from the bar was also removed many years ago. It also sports a very fancy fireplace and mirrored overmantel: the tiled strips with stylised tulips are, again, typically Art Nouveau. The top of the bar-back is plain and may be work of the 1930s, but the lower section with modern tiling, the plain matchboard counter, and the pot shelf are relatively modern. There's also a small Victorian fireplace on the left in the former Jugs & Bottles area.

The pub was extended to the left in 1934 to create the new saloon bar - a single-storey room with extensive three-quarter-height matchboard panelling. The bar counter and the bar-back fitting look fairy modern. All of the panelling and counter fronts in the pub have been painted a dull green colour.

General information about historic pub interiors

In 1905 this pub – then a beerhouse - changed hands and, judging by the embellishment, was probably remodelled soon after that. It has a particularly attractive ground-floor frontage with a couple of curved bay windows and brown glazed brick facing. The etched windows with their leaded heads (best appreciated from inside) come with delightful representations of a wheatsheaf and Art Nouveau-style flowers. The ‘jugs and bottles’ department (named in the door glass) has gone but the pub still has two entirely separate rooms.

The bar on the right was originally a small public bar and tap room behind (and off sales on the left) but the partition separating the two was removed in 1954 and the partition separating the off sales was removed later. The public bar sports a very fancy fireplace and mirrored overmantel: the tiled strips with stylised tulips are, again, typically Art Nouveau. The bar-back is plain and may be work of the 1930s (some lower shelves replaced by fridges) while the plain match-board counter is a replacement installed in 1986 and the mighty pot shelf is modern. Fixed seating doesn't look that old but the low baffles could well be. Small Victorian fireplace on the left in the former Bottles & Jugs area.

The pub was extended to the left in 1934 by buying the properties next door to demolish them and build the new saloon bar - a single-storey room which has extensive three-quarter-height match-board panelling. Here the fire surround is much plainer than next door. The bar counter front looks to have been added to an older counter as the top looks old; the gnar back fitting looks more modern than old. The pub was probably called the Old Wheatsheaf to distinguish it from another Wheatsheaf in Baker Street situated at the other end of Enfield Town.

Historic information from A-Z of Enfield Pub's Part 1 by Gary Boudier (2000)

General information about historic pub interiors
Monday
Noon - 11:00pm
Tuesday
Noon - 11:00pm
Wednesday
Noon - 11:00pm
Thursday
Noon - 11:00pm
Friday
Noon - Midnight
Saturday
Noon - 11:00pm
Sunday
11:00am - 10:30pm
Monday
Noon - 9:00pm
Tuesday
Noon - 9:00pm
Wednesday
Noon - 9:00pm
Thursday
Noon - 9:00pm
Friday
Noon - 9:00pm
Saturday
Noon - 9:00pm
Sunday
Noon - 9:00pm

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Current beers

This Pub serves no changing beers and 2 regular beers.

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Fuller's - London Pride TasteMatch Prediction

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Fuller's - London Pride Session Bitter • 4.1% Spotted 3 times.
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Fuller's - London Pride

This beer is served regularly and Spotted 3 times. at Old Wheatsheaf, Enfield.

ABV 4.1%
Dispense Handpump
Style Session Bitter
Colour
Vegan No
Gluten Free No

Timothy Taylor - Landlord TasteMatch Prediction

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Timothy Taylor - Landlord Session Bitter • 4.3% Spotted 4 times.
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Timothy Taylor - Landlord

This beer is served regularly and Spotted 4 times. at Old Wheatsheaf, Enfield.

ABV 4.3%
Dispense Handpump
Style Session Bitter
Colour
Vegan No
Gluten Free No

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Facilities
Sports TV Sports TV
Lunchtime Meals Lunchtime Meals
Evening Meals Evening Meals
Garden Garden
At the rear
Family Friendly Family Friendly
Dog Friendly Dog Friendly
Events Events
Function Room Function Room
Vault - 40 standing, 20 seated
Wi Fi Wi Fi
Password displayed on small blackboards
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Cask Marque Beer and Cellar Hygiene rating
Cask Marque: Beer and Cellar Hygiene rating 5 out of 5
Transport
Close to bus routes
121, 231, 307, 313 (10 yds)
Nearby Station (150m)
Enfield Chase
Close to London Underground/Overground/DLR (750m)
Enfield Town

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