08/10/22 - now open again! Any info on such as opening hours welcome - those listed have been taken from Google. 18/10/22 - Real Ale reinstated on visit today - we understood as of Dec2022 that Draught Bass is now permanent beer, but it was not available in a Jan 2023 visit. Food is coming soon.

28/01/22 The Council has just granted a licence for The Winchester pub in Highgate! From Ham & High, "The application was submitted by the Northern Union Pub Company, which has recently revived the fortunes of north London pubs The Albert in Primrose Hill, the Haverstock Tavern in Haverstock Hill, and Hampstead’s Old White Bear."

https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/things-to-do/food-reviews/highgate-pub-winchester-licence-approved-8628678?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

5th Oct 2019 - Site visit and photos taken. Closed with windows on ground floor frosted over. Original etched glass and metal signage visible on both entrances. Aug 2019 - Planning application refused for change of use of the rear ground floor pub space (Class A4) into a 1 bed dwelling (Class C3); with the associated internal reconfiguration of the remaining ground and basement level pub floorspace, with additional access and external rear flue. External fenestration alterations. 98 objections were received, with none is support.

Nov 2018 - This pub is closed and appears on Google Streetview as Winchester Apartments. The latest planning application to change of use of the rear ground floor pub space (Class A4) into a 1 bed dwelling (Class C3); with the associated internal reconfiguration of the remaining ground and basement level pub floorspace, with additional access and external rear flue. External fenestration alterations. Was refused.

However, The leasehold is still listed as available - https://www.dcl.co.uk/property/winchester-hall-206-archway-road-london-n6-5ba/ The handwritten sign that went up in November announcing a couple of weeks' closure for refurbishment has long gone. It appears the etched glass screens etc remain but otherwise the pub seems to be a storeroom for the building works going upstairs. We gather the developer is the same one that recently lost his effort to convert the Alexandra in Fortis Green into flats.

The most striking feature of this pub is the very large glazed office occupying much of the area behind the bar. The main room is split by the vestigial remnant of a former wooden division. A smaller room at the rear, featuring a piano, leads via a door to the attractive, shrub-lined, heated outdoor drinking area in the former stable yard. Listed on CAMRA's London Regional Inventory of historic pub interiors