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The Castle, Harrow
Harrow
HA1 3EF
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Reviews of The Castle (Average Rating: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
Bucking Fastard left this review about The Castle
A very fine 3* CAMRA listed heritage pub,tied to Fullers and close to Harrow School in the steeply hilly area off the High Street.Original featues abound,fine doors,etched glass and a nesting of small rooms around a central bar.There is a halg height wooden divider between two sections which requires ducking down,the furniture is traditional and the nooks and crannies pleasing.There is a small restaurant at the rear with tables laid for servive.
The full line up of handpumps are in the section reached by the side door next to the exterior bench seating in a small courtyard and on my trip the offering was London Pride,ESB,Hophead (NBSS 4,£5.55) and American Pale Ale a decent line up of Fullers ales.The pub sits in an upmarket area and this is reflected in the customer mix.It's dog friendly and no doubt staff from the school us it,not sure if pupils are allowed in ,although the bar staff did seem to be of similar age.
A well run ,friendly pub with heritage features making the climb up the hill worthwhile.I would most certainly return.
On 6th January 2024
- rating: 8
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Castle
This is a nice Fullers pub close to Harrow School, situated on a fairly steep hill just off the High Street. You enter via a corner door into a small front Public Bar with smart floorboards, pastel shaded walls and a short, curved section of servery to the rear. This room has some very limited high table and stool seating plus one bench to the left of the entrance, but was primarily being used as a room for greeting and registering customers before seating them elsewhere around the pub. The room’s, and perhaps the pub’s, most distinctive feature is a very nice part-glazed partitioning wall next to the bar, which has a very low doorway connecting it to the rear bar, although sadly the pub’s current one-way system meant that this doorway was out of use. A doorway to the right, with a hatch next to it, takes you through to a quite homely seating area with the same flooring, a few basic tables and chairs around the perimeter, dated floral wallpaper on the upper half of the walls and an unusual inlaid pattern across the lower half. A tidy fireplace stands on the end wall underneath a copper hood and plain mirror, whilst the walls have been covered with all sorts of old clocks, including a rather hefty looking grandfather clock, none of which were showing the correct time. Both of these rooms have modern etched glass windows with Fullers branding. Moving through to the rear from here, you enter a dark tile floored room with a few tub chairs around another fireplace giving it a lounge feel and then from here you can complete the circuit by entering the rear bar which is decorated in similar fashion to the front bar but is a bit larger and has its own fireplace. There is also a decent looking garden to the rear which extends under some cover down the left side of the building, although I didn’t manage to get a proper look around it, nor did I find the old billiards room, which may or may not still be available for the public to sit in.
The public bar had two ales clipped – Fullers London Pride and Gales Seafarers – although I suspect a couple more were available from the rear bar, as I could see the backs of four handpulls without being able to figure out what was on them. I tried a pint of their London Pride which has to go down as the best pint of Pride I’ve had in years – there’s some excellent cellarmanship clearly going on here.
This is a really nice, multiple room pub that I didn’t enjoy as much as I might have thanks to the restrictions on being able to freely move around. It has an interesting interior that carefully balances traditional features with the need to modernise and with beer in as good shape as my pint of Pride was, there are plenty of reasons to mark this place down for repeat visits.
On 15th October 2020
- rating: 7
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Castle Inn
This is a classic Fuller’s pub, which had on Gales HSB, London Pride, and ESB. The Pride was absolutely superb, and provided a reminder of what an excellent ale this can still be when kept and served properly. And at £3.25 a pint it is very reasonably price in a pub that has gastro aspirations, as this one appears to have. The pretentious menu pricing still remains – sandwiches are 5½, the Castle Burger is 8¾, etc, etc. I just don’t see how it helps anyone, not least any foreign tourists who may pitch up here, not to use the widely recognised pricing convention of £5.50 and £8.75 respectively.
Having had my gripe, I have to say that I think that this is an excellent pub. It is well described below, so I don’t need to repeat it. I sat in the room to the right of the bar counter as you enter, and this is the one with numerous antique clocks on one of the walls, and amazingly two of them were telling the correct time. The rest of the walls were covered with miscellaneous prints. There was no music being played, no fruit or games machines, although I did spot a ciggy machine.
This is a classic Victorian pub that is rightly on the CAMRA inventory of heritage pubs, tucked away down a side street adjacent to the world famous Harrow School. Like The Flask at Highgate and The Holly Bush at Hampstead, it has managed to combine an upmarket ambience while at the same time retaining the feel of a real pub. This is rightly a destination pub.
On 21st April 2011
- rating: 8
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- Historic Pub Interiors - pubheritage.camra.org.uk
Sudbury Hill Harrow, 1.28 miles, 24 min walk (show)
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- Accommodation : No last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Car Park : No last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 15 October 2020 by Pub SignMan
- Darts : No last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 15 October 2020 by Pub SignMan
- Function Room : Yes last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Jukebox : No last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Karaoke : No last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Live Music : Yes last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Micropub : No last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Pinball : No last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Pool Table : No last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Quiz Night : Yes last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Real Ale : Yes - Fuller's - last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Real Cider : No last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- Wheelchair Access : No last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
- WiFi : Yes - O2 WiFi - last updated 25 November 2018 by Komakino .
