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The Country House, Earlsfield, SW18
SW18
SW18 4EP
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Country House
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Tris C left this review about The Country House
With an address that sounds like a villainous race from an episode of Dr Who, this is a mid-19th century backstreet pub, a stone’s throw from Earlsfield overground station. It’s on CAMRA’s inventory of pubs with historic interiors, this being of Outstanding National Historic Importance, pics available on their site.
This is a very traditional pub with a games machine, unobtrusive sport, darts and some sort of coits/skittles game overheard in a separate room. Customers were a mixed local bunch and seemed in good spirits on my Saturday visit at 10.00pm.
An initially enticing six pumps on the red lino bar top, amounted to four unused, thereafter a reversed Landlord clip then Sussex Best at a reasonable £2.60 a half, served by a friendly very old-school landlady and in very good shape it was too.
This is as far as you can get from the neighbouring Earlsfield, where no doubt the young crowd sup gins infused with anchovies or some such; this place is certainly worth a visit, but the electronics are a distraction and the cask choice is limited.
On 15th October 2023
- rating: 7
[User has posted 1985 recommendations about 1951 pubs]
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Country House
Just a short walk from Earlsfield station, this is a nice, traditional multiple room backstreet boozer that serves a down-to-earth bunch of locals, in sharp contrast to the many fancy gastro pubs that plague this neighbourhood. Entering through the corner doors, you find yourself in a good sized public bar, with exposed floorboards, dark beams across the ceiling and the servery along the rear wall. The bar has an attractive, curved dark wood counter with a matching mirrored bar back. Tables and chairs fill the space to the left of the servery, whilst a run of high tables and padded stools can be found under the front windows, which have a mix of etched lower panes, and smaller bulls-eye inserts in the upper row. The walls have mid-height dark wood panels and have been decorated with a series of wall-mounted plates, offset by some TV screens showing horse racing to a rapt group of customers. An opened out doorway to the right leads into a small side room with its own little serving hatch under a frosted glass screen. Three high tables with stools fill the room with a bit of space left for a dartboard and oche, whilst further TV screens were showing muted live Italian football to no-one in particular. A brick fireplace on the end wall was sadly obscured by a large advert for the pub’s smartphone quiz, but had a few posters and brass items on the mantelpiece and above. A rear lounge could be viewed through the servery, but it appeared to be in darkness, so I was unable to explore properly.
I received a very warm welcome from the old-school landlord, and was faced with a choice of three cask ales - Taylors Landlord, Wychwood Hobgoblin and Three Sods IPA. I tried a pint of the latter which was in very good nick and I enjoyed supping whilst listening to the locals chatting nonsense to each other.
Pubs like this, offering a traditional multiple room layout with well-kept beer and no concessions to family dining or hipster craft beers, are increasingly hard to find in South London these days, so it was great to stumble across this place which ticked all those boxes. Definitely the place to go in this part of town if you want some good quality ale in a proper pub environment.
On 21st January 2022
- rating: 7
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Country House
This place has had a refurbishment recently, and I dropped in to see what they had done to it. The answer is little of substance, which is a good thing. If it's not broken don't try to fix it. The pool table and pinball have gone, and there are now quite a few tall tables/tall stools around the place, but enough normal tables and chairs to keep me happy.
There are six handpumps in the public bar, but when I visited Monday lunchtime there were only two ales on - Three Sods Session IPA and Black Sheep Rye Mild. The other four were clipped, with "coming soon" (or something similar) labels on them. The four coming soon were Doom Bar, Wandle, and the By the Horns pair of Diamond Geezer and Lambeth Walk. The landlord told me that they normally have three ales available, with either Doom Bar or Wandle on with a couple of guests, as this is currently the most that can be sustained by current demand. Prices are expensive, with real ale at £4.70 or so a pint, but you get a £1 off a pint on Mondays. The only food available was pork pies, sausage rolls or Scotch eggs at £2.50 a pop.
This remains a delightful little backstreet pub. I'll certainly be back sometime.
On 20th November 2017
- rating: 7
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- Accommodation : No last updated 17 April 2015 by Graham Coombs
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 17 April 2015 by Graham Coombs
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 13 March 2016 by ROB Camra
- Beer Garden : Yes - Small rear patio. - last updated 15 October 2023 by Tris C
- CAMRA Discount : Yes - 10% - last updated 20 November 2017 by Rex Rattus
- Car Park : No last updated 17 April 2015 by Graham Coombs
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 21 January 2022 by Pub SignMan
- Darts : Yes last updated 21 January 2022 by Pub SignMan
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 21 January 2022 by Pub SignMan
- Function Room : No last updated 16 December 2018 by Komakino .
- Hot Food : No last updated 20 November 2017 by Rex Rattus
- Jukebox : Yes last updated 13 March 2016 by ROB Camra
- Karaoke : No last updated 16 December 2018 by Komakino .
- Live Music : Yes last updated 17 April 2015 by Graham Coombs
- Live TV Sports : Yes last updated 17 April 2015 by Graham Coombs
- Micropub : No last updated 13 March 2016 by ROB Camra
- Pinball : No last updated 20 November 2017 by Rex Rattus
- Pool Table : No last updated 20 November 2017 by Rex Rattus
- Quiz Night : Yes - Tuesday - last updated 20 November 2017 by Rex Rattus
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 20 November 2017 by Rex Rattus
- Real Cider : No last updated 13 March 2016 by ROB Camra
- Wheelchair Access : No last updated 16 December 2018 by Komakino .
- WiFi : Yes last updated 15 October 2023 by Tris C
