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Manor

Manor Drive North,
Malden Manor,
KT3 5PN

Like the Duke of Buckingham this pub is not a listed building but it is one of London’s Real Heritage pubs and the description is as follows: “The Manor is prominently sited on a roundabout in an inter-war housing estate and handily placed by Malden Manor Station. The pub is believed to have opened in 1938, is built of red brick and has similarities to the rather smaller Duke of Buckingham in Kingston. Both were built by Hodgsons’ Kingston Brewery, which was founded way back around 1610 and ceased brewing in 1949 although bottling continued until 1965. They share crests over the doorways (the salmon from the borough arms and a rebus of a K and a tun), and cast-iron plaques about rights of way. This is a big pub which remarkably, and a great rarity in these parts, still has three separate rooms. The public bar (right) and private bar (on the corner) are little altered but the huge space on the left is an amalgamation of the ‘saloon and luncheon room’ (so-named in the glass of the door at the back facing the station). The panelled bar counter and canopy over are original (but not the columns in between). The bar-back is also largely original – note the curious projected part at the angle between the left- and right-hand parts. Pretty Art Deco-style decoration to the cornices and striking interlocked circles over the external doors.”

This pub is now closed, having been converted to a Co-Op.

The Manor featured on the Daytime Crawl of Southern Outer London in June 2005, and the Three Salmon, Several Ks, and a Tun: Daytime Crawl of Kingston, Malden Manor, and New Malden in October 2010.