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The Winchester Hall Hotel was situated at 206 Archway Road. This pub closed in 2015.

The local community continue to fight for this Highgate pub, closed since 2014. At least three planning applications for conversion to residential use have been fought off and its Asset of Community Value listing has just been renewed. One of the campaign’s leaders told the local newspaper, the Ham & High, “It is fantastic news that the Winchester Tavern has been relisted as an Asset of Community Value. It will give this building the added protection it deserves. We hope this sends a strong message to the owner to stop trying to build more flats and to find a tenant so the Winchester Tavern can finally reopen and the community can once again enjoy this much loved pub. The Winchester, at one time known as the Winchester Hall Hotel, dates from 1881 and is on CAMRA’s National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors and we can only hope that the interior is surviving.

London Drinker (August 2021 edition)

Having been closed since 2014 and threatened by three change of use applications, the Winchester in Highgate reopened on 8 October 2022. Congratulations to the dedicated local campaigners who never gave up on getting their pub back and made this possible. This distinctive building has had much of its interior glasswork restored. This includes a glazed publican’s office which has been turned into a snug and is available for hire. The pub is now operated by the Leeds based Northern Union Pub Company, who manage a number of recently reopened pubs in north London. The pub dates from 1881 and is part of a parade of shops with purpose built flats above. It was originally the Winchester Tavern but was subsequently renamed the Winchester Hall Hotel, as evidenced by the ironwork over the door. The later name is taken from a nearby 17th century mansion.

London Drinker magazine, December 2022/January 2023

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