This website is currently in beta. If you wish to go back to the current site please click here. To provide feedback or find out more about this site, please click here.

Pubs & Clubs
Events
Beers & Breweries
Pubs & Clubs
Events
Beers & Breweries
Join Us

Pyrotechnists Arms, Nunhead

Let us know your thoughts by leaving a score

REAL ALE not available
39 Nunhead Green, Nunhead, SE15 3QF (View on Google Map)
No website available
Improve This Listing

One of the oldest surviving pubs in Nunhead. The name is derived from one time patrons from a nearby fireworks factory. Entry to this 2 bar house is through a pleasant paved garden area to the front. There is a separate pool room to the rear. Karaoke takes place each night from 9pm.

Information for this venue is provided by the South East London Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
Southwark
Last updated
04/06/2024
Last surveyed
23/04/2024
Pub ID
SEL/10684
Asset of Community Value

Built c.1874 of two-storeys of brick with render on the ground floor it was subject a 1930s refit. The door on the Kirkwood Road side looks like it was the off sales one.

The corner bar (exterior doors no longer in use) has a bare wood floor, a canted interwar bar counter with the front painted black. A leaded glazed screen acts as a bar back with ‘Courage’ on it and mirrors below; lower shelving replaced by fridges. Exterior windows ‘Courage Ales’, ‘Wines & Spirits’.

A double door-width gap to the left-hand bar with a bare wood floor, a small curved bar counter that looks 1930s but painted gastro-grey; old wood surround fireplace with a modern brick interior.

Rear has a 1930s bar counter with a shot blasted counter front, same bar back with ‘Courage’ ‘Pyrotechnists’ on bar back but fridges replaced lower shelving. Another wood surround fireplace with modern brick interior (no fireplaces used) near door from Kirkwood Road. A door goes back to main bar. There is also a room at rear left brought into use.

Built c.1874 of two-storeys of brick with render on the ground floor it was subject a 1930s refit. The door on the Kirkwood Road side looks like it was the off sales one.

The corner bar (exterior doors no longer in use) has a bare wood floor, a canted interwar bar counter with the front painted black. A leaded glazed screen acts as a bar back with ‘Courage’ on it and mirrors below; lower shelving replaced by fridges. Exterior windows ‘Courage Ales’, ‘Wines & Spirits’.

A double door-width gap to the left-hand bar with a bare wood floor, a small curved bar counter that looks 1930s but painted gastro-grey; old wood surround fireplace with a modern brick interior.

Rear has a 1930s bar counter with a shot blasted counter front, same bar back with ‘Courage’ ‘Pyrotechnists’ on bar back but fridges replaced lower shelving. Another wood surround fireplace with modern brick interior (no fireplaces used) near door from Kirkwood Road. A door goes back to main bar. There is also a room at rear left brought into use.

General information about historic pub interiors
Seen some incorrect or missing details? let us know.
Opening
Monday
11:00am - 11:30pm
Tuesday
11:00am - 11:30pm
Wednesday
11:00am - 11:30pm
Thursday
11:00am - 11:30pm
Friday
11:00am - 12:30am
Saturday
11:00am - 12:30am
Sunday
Noon - 10:00pm
Spotted an error with the opening times? Let us know

Current beers

There are no beers listed. Add a beer or submit a beer score.

Pyrotechnists Arms, Nunhead

Add it to our list and share what's currently being served!.
Are you a CAMRA member? Contribute by submitting a beer score
Spot a Beer
Submit beer score

Source: National

Do you know what Regular beers or changing beers this Pub serves? Let us know
Your scores
Join CAMRA to access beer scoring and view scores for other pubs.
Become a member.
Retrieving scores
You have no beer scores submitted.

Facilities
Sports TV Sports TV
Live Music Live Music
Garden Garden
Function Room Function Room
Games Games
Pool
Smoking Smoking
Wi Fi Wi Fi
Features
Transport
Close to bus routes (200m)
London Buses: 78, P12
Nearby Station (350m)
Nunhead
Close to London Underground/Overground/DLR (950m)
Queens Road (Peckham)
Are these pub facilities or features correct? Let us know

Nearby

View All
(Pub, External). Published on 27-07-2013
Man of Kent
Real Ale Available
Pub
0.1 miles - 2-4 Nunhead Green, Nunhead, SE15 3QF
Exterior view from street. (Pub, External, Key). Published on 21-05-2021
Old Nun's Head
Real Ale Available
Pub
0.1 miles - 15 Nunhead Green, Nunhead, SE15 3QQ
(Pub, External). Published on 27-07-2013
Hollydale Tavern
Pub
0.3 miles - 115 Hollydale Road, Peckham, SE15 2TF
(Pub, Key). Published on 24-11-2017
Angel Oak
Real Ale Available
Pub
0.3 miles - 31 Peckham Rye, Peckham, SE15 3NX
(Pub, External, Key). Published on 21-05-2021
Golden Anchor
Pub
0.3 miles - 16 Evelina Road, Peckham, SE15 2DX
(Pub, External). Published on 27-07-2013
White Horse
Real Ale Available
Pub
0.4 miles - 20-22 Peckham Rye, Peckham, SE15 4JR
(Pub, External). Published on 25-06-2013
Skehans
Real Ale Available
Pub
0.4 miles - 1 Kitto Road, New Cross, SE14 5TW
(Pub, External, Key). Published on 21-05-2021
Nags Head
Real Ale Available
Pub
0.4 miles - 231 Rye Lane, Peckham Rye, Peckham, SE15 4TP
(Pub, External, Key). Published on 04-12-2015
Four Quarters
Pub
0.4 miles - 187 Rye Lane, Peckham Rye, Peckham, SE15 4TP
EKO Brewery & Tap Room
Pub
0.4 miles - Unit 2A-2, Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Road, Peckham, SE15 3SN

Need accommodation?

 

 

Home
© Campaign for Real Ale 2023 - 2024