Site of Sir Winston Churchill Public House (EHER 48529)

This is the site of a 1950s Public House designed by the Stags Brewery in Tudorbethan Road-House style. It was known as the Sir Winston Churchill Public House and was largely unaltered in 2014 when it was recorded prior to being demolished.

The Sir Winston Churchill pub was designed by the Surveyors department of the Stag Brewery. The original plans for the building were obtained from Epping Forest District Council and show that the external layout of the pub has only slightly altered and a few doors have been converted into windows. Internally the changes have been greater, in particular on the ground floor, which in the original plan has been divided into three main areas - the restaurant and lounge, the saloon and the public bar with an off sales area located within the eastern projecting gable. The bar itself has also been altered to reflect the more open nature of the current pub. The service area was designed as one open space with the stairs to the cellar located in the northwest corner. The main kitchen for the restaurant was located on the first floor with a dumb waiter present in the north-west food service area on the ground floor. The first floor has not changed in layout, only in function, with all the rooms now used as bedrooms. The cellar has been further sub-divided and the stairs moved to the north-west wall. <1>