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Lord Southampton, NW5
NW5
NW5 4HX
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Reviews of Lord Southampton (Average Rating: 5½ of 10) see review guidelines
Moby Duck left this review about Lord Southampton
A corner pub with the exterior featuring some nice blue and green tiling. Inside the room layout is roughly U shaped around the centrally placed bar. The interior decor is basic but boasts some nice fielded paneling, music was playing at a medium level maybe a tad loud for the early afternoon but the musical taste suited mine, Neil Young, JJ Cale, Nick Cave etc. Beer-wise is a bit too mainstream for my liking with the cask choice between London Pride and Landlord with the later being in fair condition, that aside it's a decent enough pub well worth the look and thanks to Tris for the recommendation when we met in Lewes the previous day.
On 14th April 2025
- rating: 7
[User has posted 2151 recommendations about 2118 pubs]
Tris C left this review about Lord Southampton
Date of visit: 13th March 2011.
If someone with some imagination could reinvent this pub it could be really quite good. As it happens, it's a bit of a dive and is clearly aimed at the local estate crowd.
My main complaints are that there's a fruit machine (with accompanying noise), a TV belching junk (Deal Or No Deal on my visit) and the stench wafting over the pub from the loos was too much to bear; I didn't care much for the blue vinyl seats either. I can't really see this pub surviving without a serious makeover.
Rated: 3.
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Supposedly dating from 1792 and rebuilt in the mid-19th century, the second of NW5’s Southampton-themed pubs has a CAMRA listed interior of *. It was formerly run by landlady Martha McGrath for around 40 years until 2016, former patrons supposedly including Karl Marx, thespians Peter O'Toole, Bill Nighy and Pete Postlethwaite, radio DJ Chris Moyles and 1980s popstrels Bananarama; if true, that’s really saying something as – apart from Moylesy – I couldn’t really imagine any of that bunch coming here in its former guise, especially Keren Woodward.
The place closed around late 2020 and was boarded up, scruffy inside and out; see CAMRA’s photo. Reopened on 26th November, the simple interwar years’ interior has been largely – and beautifully – retained, with a new boarded floor with turquoise tiled infill, original threequarters height natural wood panelling, above which is textured wallpaper then ceiling, in both matt and gloss sage green paint, peripheral settle seating, original bar front and mirrored back, leaded clerestories and old school furniture; lighting comes from muted, translucent white spherical shades and a good Doors/Hendrix soundtrack played during my brief stay, no TVs, customers now mixed age, civilised locals; it’s love in the first degree, presided over by friendly licensees Aimee Brown and Chris Harrington.
The same can’t be said of the ale front though, with Pride and the new Hophead v. 3.0, just £4.50 and in good nick.
This is – at last – a very nice pub, one of the best not just in NW5 but in the Borough of Camden, but it could do with a more adventurous cask lineup to improve the score. Nevertheless, it’s proof positive that it ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it. And that’s what gets results.
Rated: 7.5.
On 10th February 2025
- rating: 7
[User has posted 2207 recommendations about 2164 pubs]
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Alan Winfield left this review about Lord Southampton
The Lord Southampton is a corner pub that is a short walk from the busy Malden Road.
Once inside there is an L shaped room with the bar facing on entry,there is a a wood laminate floor,the seating is scruffy bench seating and small stools,there is a pool table to the rear and darts board on the left side.
I was surprised to see one real ale on the bar,which was Doom Bar,this was a decent drink.
The pub was packed on my Friday afternoon visit with what some might say a rough looking crowd,but this did not bother me.
Background music was playing.
The pub is also used as an hostel and locals in the Gipsy Queen said it could be a bit rough inside.
Another London pub done so i was well pleased.
Pub visited 2/6/2017
On 7th August 2017
- rating: 6
[User has posted 6113 recommendations about 6113 pubs]
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- CAMRA WhatPub :: Lord Southampton - whatpub.com
- Historic Pub Interiors - pubheritage.camra.org.uk
Kentish Town West, 0.64 miles, 12 min walk (show)
Hampstead Heath, 0.79 miles, 15 min walk (show)
Pub Details
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- Accommodation : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Beer Garden : No - Smoke-free front patio. - last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Car Park : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Child Friendly : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Darts : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Function Room : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Jukebox : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Karaoke : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Live Music : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Micropub : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Pinball : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Pool Table : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Quiz Night : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- Real Cider : No last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
- WiFi : Yes last updated 09 February 2025 by Tris C
