Tourian Lounge

Status: Open
Address: 90 Highgate Hill, N19 5NQ (streetmap) (osm) (gmap) (bingmap) (streetview)
London borough: Islington
Former name(s): Old Crown
Ye Old Crown
Old Crown Inn
Former address: [also listed as Holloway Hill, Holloway Road (1856), and as Hornsey Lane (1821)]
Historical parish: Islington
Dates open: by 1705-
rebuilt 1904
Owner: Ei Group
Courage (former)
Barclay Perkins (former)
Website: Website
Notes: Renamed as the "Tourian Lounge" in 2018. It is primarily a restaurant, but one can drink here. Ordnance Survey maps show that the pub building was originally located about 10m to the south-east down Highgate Hill, prior to rebuilding in 1904 at the corner of Hornsey Lane (on the site of the pub's original tea gardens).
Photo taken in January 2010
Sources: Open date: Archives
Rebuilding date: Highgate from Old Photographs via Tris C (e-mail)
Renaming: WhatPub
Owner: WhatPub/CAMRA North London Beer Guide/Archives
London Drinker WP28/WP31
OS 1870/1895/1915/1937/1952 (as "Old Crown")/1967 (as "Old Crown")
PO 1839/1855/1856/1874/1896/1906/1914/1921 (all as "Old Crown")
Tris C (e-mail)
References: ACC/2305/01/936/1-88/3
MS 11936/488/978463
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