Blythe Hill Tavern — 319 Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, London, SE23 1JB

Victorian Corner Pub · Grade II Listed · Forest Hill

Blythe Hill TavernForest Hill · Grade II Listed

A corner pub on Stanstead Road, listed for an interior of national importance — three panelled rooms off one long bar, a real fire, a garden out the back, and Guinness poured properly.

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Open every day from noon

A room off the bar: a beamed ceiling and chandelier, a bay window of leaded glass, red carpet and framed Victorian temperance notices
1866and Grade II listed

Welcome

A Victorian corner pub, listed for its interior

The Blythe Hill Tavern has stood on the corner of Stanstead Road since about 1866, and was listed Grade II in 2022 for an interior of national importance.

Three rooms open off one long bar, panelled in the 1920s and little changed since — leaded glass, a beamed ceiling, a real fire, and Victorian temperance notices framed on the wall of a pub that has quietly ignored them for a century and a half.

Out the back there is a garden with barrel tables under the ivy. It is a local first and foremost, and it has been voted one of London's best pubs more than once.

Grade II listedListed in 2022, for an interior of national importance
Three roomsPanelled in the 1920s, all off one long bar
Real aleLondon Pride, Dark Star Hophead and Harvey's Sussex Best on the handpulls
The gardenBarrel tables under the ivy, out the back

The pub

Panelled rooms, real ale, and a proper pint of Guinness

The long bar: a panelled ceiling and chandeliers, a Guinness toucan sign, and the handpulls along the counter
The bar
The painted gable: flying Guinness toucans under Lovely day for a GUINNESS, above THE BLYTHE HILL TAVERN in tall letters
The gable
The frontage on Stanstead Road: BLYTHE HILL TAVERN in gold on a black fascia, hanging baskets either side of the door
The front
The garden: barrel tables and wooden stools against a wall of ivy
The garden
Brass handpulls along the bar — London Pride, Dark Star Hophead and Harvey's Sussex Best — with the Guinness founts alongside
The handpulls
Two pints of Guinness settling under the fount
Poured properly
Blythe painted in cream script on the dark gantry panelling, an old corkscrew advertisement above and glasses on the shelf below
Painted by hand

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Walk in, or give us a ring — it is worth ringing ahead for a group.

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020 8690 5176

Open every day from noon.

GroupsThere is a function room as well as the bar — ring us with the date and how many are coming.
Live music & sportLive music and the sport on the screens — ring us to ask what is on.

Find us

319 Stanstead Road

Address
319 Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, London, SE23 1JB
Telephone
020 8690 5176
Opening times
  • Monday – Wednesday12pm – 11pm
  • Thursday – Saturday12pm – midnight
  • Sunday12pm – 11pm
Good to know
  • A real fire in the winter, and a garden out the back for the summer.
  • There is a function room, and the sport is on the screens.
Map showing the Blythe Hill Tavern on Stanstead Road, Forest Hill.

On the corner of Stanstead Road, between Forest Hill and Catford Bridge.

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Barrel tables and stools in the garden, against a wall of ivy
The garden
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