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The Wood House, Sydenham Hill, SE26
Dulwich
SE26
SE26 6RS
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The Wood House, Dulwich
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David Walton left this review about The Wood House
This one definitely seems to polarise opinions at the below average end of the spectrum. It is an attractive venue where the bar hits you as soon as you walk in through the front door, accessed via a small flight of steps off the road outside. There are seating areas on both sides of the bar and there maybe more but that was the extent of my exploration on this short visit. I did notice a rather attractive garden area out the back that seemed to wrap around the back of the pub. Given it was sheeting down on my arrival I had no inclination to go outside and prove my assertion in the positive or the negative. The area around the bar is tiled running off to a wooden floor in the seating areas.
Drinks wise there was Youngs Original, Adnams Ghost Ship and Proper Job on hand pump. There was an average range of keg beers, GH Bandit about the best of what was available unless you are a lager lover, in which case happy days! Most of the small quantum of punters here during my visit seemed to be drinking wine so the rather average cask offering seemed to not be of much interest to them.
This is just an average venue for me. Indeed probably should make below average as this should be much better. It is a nice venue, not much around. Next nearest pub probably half a mile away. However, it has a bland offering but I shall opine it is average. Would be amazed if anyone else bothered that breview it in the next 5 years, which is in itself a sad indictment.
On 21st May 2024
- rating: 5
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Malden man left this review about The Wood House
A large rambling split-level pub with several connecting areas plus a more sedate side room, "Paxton's Lounge"....Paxton being the Architect of the nearby Crystal Palace, pictures, photographs and drawings of which are throughout the pub There is a log burner in here, thankfully not used today on the first decent day we've had in months. Mostly boarded floors, lots of wood panelling and shelving, either painted some kind of seawood blue sea colour or a colour I imagine a paint card would call "biscuit". Decor also includes surveying and measuring instruments, shelves in the side room have various jugs, jars books etc. There is a large conservatory to the rear with every table set for formal dining it seemed.
It remains a former Young's house, now the Ram Brewery Company, Young's Special and Ordinary, By the Horns Stiff Upper Lip with their Giggle Mug "coming soon".
I visited while on a walk, it is hilly around here and I arrived hot and sweaty and in need of a drink. Seven people were falling over each other behind the bar, not one had any clue who was next or had been waiting a while. In the end I had to leave manners slightly behind and demand to be served and then to be topped up but thanks to the chap next to me who seemed to understand the rules also and backed up my indignation as the barmaid was about to serve an immediate arrival. No apologies, no thank you for waiting, nothing. If seven people cannot serve around fifteen people in a few minutes I wonder how they are trained.
On 14th April 2018
- rating: 3
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Rex Rattus left this review about The Wood House
The ales on in here were Young's Bitter, Special, and Santa's Little Belter (£2.05 a half), plus a guest of Twickenham Vanilla Stout. The Santa's Little Belter wasn't particularly good, just past its best possibly, but drinkable nonetheless. Being a Young's pub, food is pretty much available at the usual times - the beefburger, etc, is £11, and the pheasant breast wrapped in bacon, etc, etc, is £14.50.
Again, being a Young's house it's been thoroughly modernised to make it more welcoming to families, yada, yada. I was looking forward to the walk through the garden to find the entrance, as experienced by the previous reviewer, but for some reason they've turned convention on its head and you now enter through the main door at the front! A return to sanity perhaps? Inside it's very Young's. The colour scheme is mainly cream and a sort of dark green/indigo colour (probably got a fancy name but I don't know it). There are still several connected and opened up drinking/dining areas, which would have been completely separate at some time in the past.
As you enter, the peninsular bar's facing you; a bit of seating's to the left, including a couple of tall tables/tall stools and armchairs; leading to Paxton's Study (Paxton being the designer of the Crystal Palace) which is furnished with sofas and armchairs. To the right of the counter is a room furnished mainly with banquettes, pouffes, and normal tables and chairs (all reserved for 1.30 PM when I was in at Wednesday lunchtime). At the back on the right is the dining room and conservatory, predictably with all tables laid for diners. The garden is at the rear, with a few more outside seats beside the conservatory all with very Christmassy poinsettias on them.
The decor is mainly prints and photographs, some of the old Crystal Palace itself, plus of course the Queen Mother pulling that pint in the Queens Head, Limehouse. This is of course no longer the unpretentious pub that I remember from the 60s and 70s but it's a survivor in an area with no other pubs nearby, so I'm glad it's still here at least.
On 19th December 2015
- rating: 5
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- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 04 June 2009 by Will Larter
- Car Park : Yes last updated 09 May 2022 by paulof horsham
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 09 May 2022 by paulof horsham
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 09 May 2022 by paulof horsham
- Function Room : Yes last updated 09 May 2022 by paulof horsham
- Live Music : Yes last updated 09 May 2022 by paulof horsham
- Micropub : No last updated 09 May 2022 by paulof horsham
- Quiz Night : Yes last updated 09 May 2022 by paulof horsham
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 09 May 2022 by paulof horsham
