Although this pub is neither a listed building nor on any CAMRA Inventory, it is notable for the fact that it was frequented by the writer, Julian Maclaren-Ross who immortalised it in his book Memoirs of the Forties. The pub was also the place where the poet, Dylan Thomas met his future wife, Caitlin Macnamara. It was built in 1931 by Younger’s Brewery to a design by J & S Quilter & Son in their familiar half-timbered style. In Memoirs of the Forties Julian Maclaren-Ross described it thus: “It had mock-Tudor panelling and, inset around the walls, squares of tartan belonging to various Scottish clans.” These may have gone, but the “windows of armorial glass” and other features have survived opening-out and modernisation. Note over the entrance door a particularly pleasing stained-glass depiction of the eponymous wheatsheaf.

If the pub is too busy downstairs there is additional seating upstairs.

The Wheatsheaf featured on the Auntie's Boozers Revisited: Evening Pub Tour of Fitzrovia in April 2022.

WhatPub link: Wheatsheaf