The Stonhouse, Clapham, SW4

Tris C left this review about The Stonhouse

This is a mid-19th century backstreet pub, originally the Wirtemberg Arms, on what was originally Wirtemberg Street, both renamed due to Germanophobia resulting from The Great War, the pub patriotically and ironically renamed the Windsor Arms, after the oh-so un-German Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha family (later Windsors), at which time it was a Hoare’s house, becoming the Stonhouse in 2009.
The current interior is the result of a 2022 acquisition by the Three Cheers Pub Co: it’s bare boarded, white bare brick then white walls with dark grey wainscoting and white ceiling. Furniture is conventional and mixed in style, with assorted banquettes and peach velvet swag curtains. Décor amounted to trendy prints which appeared African influenced, the pub having a charitable association with Kenya. Customers were young, trendy types but what was inescapable was the noise of the background music.
Two cask beers: Sussex Best and Landlord, £2.90 a half and in great shape.
This isn’t a bad place and I’m glad I visited on a Saturday night when their obsession with children had abated. This is one of the better offerings in SW4, preferable to the neighbouring Clapham Tap, but it’s all relative; turning down the volume would help, because at this level I couldn’t have stayed for more than a pint.

On 21^st March 2024 - rating: 5
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