The Roundhouse, Wandsworth Common, SW18

Tris C left this review about The Roundhouse

Overlooking Spencer Park – the eponymous family once owning extensive lands in Wandsworth – this is a mid-19th century pub, originally the Freemason’s Hotel until recently, the name still visible in mosaic to an attractive entrance exhibiting some vestigial etched glass.
The interior features a bare boarded floor, modernised interior with white tiled bar back, conventional furniture and a huge number of fairy lights to the ceiling, giving the impression of drinking in a planetarium. Tacky sports’ flags were draped around, then conventional furniture, the whole decked out with trendy eclectic prints. Customers were youngish professional types, many feeling the urge to shout rather than talk, overall acoustics being loud enough to trigger the 80dB alert on my watch.
A meagre cask offering amounted to just a reversed Landlord clip, so it was more Oil at £3.55 a half, served by a perfunctory barman.
This isn’t a great pub; the lack of cask on a Friday night denting the score still further.

On 29^th February 2024 - rating: 3
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