Venue: The Ivy House
Address: 40 Stuart Road, London, SE15 3BE
Town: London, GB

The Ivy House is a Grade II listed public house at 40 Stuart Road, Nunhead, London. It is London's first co-operatively owned pub, and the first in the UK purchased on behalf of a community using the right to bid provisions in the Localism Act 2011. It was originally known as the Newlands Tavern, and was designed by the architect A. E. Sewell in the 1930s for Truman's Brewery. Opening on 4 October 1938, the new building replaced an earlier pub which had existed since the 1860s. It still contains many original features including a curved bar, timber panels, and a concert hall in the back that recalls early Victorian music halls. The hall was used for dances and parties, including on VE Day. The pub was narrowly missed by a V1 rocket in 1944 that destroyed much of the street around it. It was a venue for bands since at least the 1960s. Newlands Tavern was one of the major pub music venues in South London during the mid-1970s pub rock boom, with acts and performers including Ian Dury (in Kilburn and the High Roads), Elvis Costello (in Flip City), Joe Strummer (in The 101ers), Eddie and The Hot Rods, Graham Parker, Jeff Beck, and Dr. Feelgood. The pub was later renamed the Stuart Arms in the 1980s, before becoming The Ivy House upon purchase by Enterprise Inns in the 1990s. In April 2012 Enterprise Inns evicted the tenants with only a week's notice and announced their intention to sell it for redevelopment into flats. A group of locals, with the support of CAMRA, campaigned to get the pub its Grade II listing and also listed as an asset of community value (ACV) by Southwark London Borough Council. It was the first in London to receive the latter designation under the Localism Act 2011. Ivy House Community Pub Limited bought the freehold of the pub on 15 March 2013, upon which it became the first ACV to be purchased on behalf of a community using the right to bid provisions contained in the aforementioned act, and the city's first co-operatively owned pub. An arthouse do