This pub is also one of London’s Real Heritage Pubs and the description is as follows: “A corner-site pub which seems to have been remodelled either just before or just after the First World War. The exterior has some very attractive stained glass window details of stylised flowers, leaves and hearts. The interior retains its three-room character and its central serving area. There is a screen dividing two of the rooms from one another, while a wall between the corner bar and the room on Summerstown has simply had a small opening pierced in it. The woodwork is restrained with fielded panelling on the walls and a plain panelled bar counter. The depressed arches in the bar-back are very typical of their time. Attractive entrance lobby on the angle of the streets. The name of the pub was changed in autumn 2007 though it’s hard to imagine why.” [I have since worked out that the pub is so-called because of its proximity to the Wimbledon Dog Track.]

The Hare & Hounds featured on the Gorringe, Graveney and Garratt: Daytime Crawl of Tooting, Earlsfield and Wandsworth in February 2010.