Wine bar to open in old public toilet

A 100-year-old former public loo is to become the venue for a new wine bar set to open in London’s Clapham Common.

Housed below Clapham Common tube station, WC Wine & Charcuterie is a 40-seater bar with a trio of booths and seating for 40 in an outdoor courtyard.

The bar is the brainchild of local residents Andy Bell and Jayke Mangion, who have worked for over two years converting the toilet, which served as a squat for a number of years, into a drinking den.

A number of the original features such as the mosaic floor and tube tiling have been kept with the old attendance office forming the framework of the bar.

Love letters found behind the partition walls during the restoration are on display in the bar’s own toilets, which include two original Royal Doulton urinals.


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