These pages feature details and photographs of all pubs currently known to be trading throughout the Portsea Island districts of Portsmouth. Further entries are listed on the Mainland Pubs page.
Some pubs may also be listed with additional information on one or more of the following pages:
Pub Architecture, Pub Crawls, Pub Reviews, Best Ale Houses
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  Constructed in the 1980s for Surrey Free Inns, the Farmhouse consists of a large comfortable bar area, divided into a number of separate areas. The house was transferred to Suffolk brewer Greene King around the turn of the century and is now part of their Hungry Horse chain of eateries. The pub includes an outside patio area and there are also a number of pool tables available. Sports events are shown on television. A lodge offering accommodation and function rooms can be found adjacent to the pub.
| Pub Operator: Greene King |
Photographs, left to right:
28th April 1991; 14th August 2005 |
Licenced Opening Hours:
Mon-Sat 10:00 'til 02:30;
Sun 11:00 'til 01:00;
Bank Holiday extensions |
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| The Fat Fox |
11/13 Victoria Road South, Southsea, PO5 2SP |
| 023 9283 7078 |
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   Opened at the tail end of 2007 and owned by well-known Portsmouth bar owner Mike Hughes, the Fat Fox was established with the intention of making it a replacement for the Wine Vaults, which was sold to Fuller's some years ago. Divided into two distinct areas, the pub offers a good choice of cask ales, plenty of seating and live bands covering a wide variety of musical tastes. Good quality, good value food is available all day and an upstairs function room can be hired for parties and meetings. After a brief flirtation with the name The Globe in 2011, the pub reverted to its original name after a spell of just five months or so!
| Pub Operator: Wine Vaults (Portsmouth) Ltd |
Photographs, left to right:
26th May 2011; 18th March 2008; 22nd January 2008 |
Licenced Opening Hours:
Mon-Sat 10:00 'til 01:00; Sun 10:00 'til 23:59;
Bank Holiday extensions |
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   Designed by A H Bone and built in 1886 for the Brickwood Brewery, the Fawcett Inn occupies a prominent position on a busy street corner. With its half timbered brewers tudor style and witch's hat tower, it has an imposing presence. Currently owned by an anonymous pubco, the pub now sports one large bar, having been knocked through in the days of Whitbread. It is popular with a predominantly younger clientele such as students and has regular dance nights and live music.
| Pub Operator: Admiral Taverns |
Photographs, left to right:
16th April 2008; 14th August 2005; July 1990 |
Licenced Opening Hours:
Mon-Sat 10:00 'til 00:30;
Sun 10:00 'til 23:30;
Bank Holiday extensions |
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| The Festing |
1A Festing Road, Southsea, PO4 0NG |
| 023 9282 5560 |
  This large Victorian corner house was constructed for the Brickwood Brewery and designed by one of the area's well-known pub architects, A H Bone. An ornate Brickwoods canopy can still be found above the main entrance (as shown in the right-hand photograph).
It has retained the same name throughout its long life, though now consists of a single large bar area (courtesy of former megabrewer Whitbread, who were only too happy to demolish the interior walls of their pub estate).
The pub is now owned by Greene King and is furnished to a good standard. Darts and pool is played and food is served throughout the day. The pub is popular with a good cross section of the community, with an emphasis toward the younger customer.
| Pub Operator: Greene King |
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Photographs, clockwise from top left:
14th August 2005; 20th March 2007
11th May 1989 |
Licenced Opening Hours:
Mon Tue Wed Thu Sun 11:00 'til 23:40
Fri Sat 11:00 'til 00:40
Bank Holiday extensions |
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| The Fifth Hants Volunteer Arms |
74 Albert Road, Southsea, PO4 2SL |
| 023 9282 7161 |
www.fullers.co.uk |
   The Volunteer Arms is an institution as far as Portsmouth's pubs are concerned. Known fully as the Fifth Hants Volunteer Arms since 1953, and previously as the Volunteers Arms (see black and white photograph), the pub had been in the ownership of Gales since Victorian times.
The pub was the birthplace of the Portsmouth & South East Hants branch of the Campaign for Real Ale in the early 1970s has has featured in their annual Good Beer Guide publication for many years. Now owned by Fuller's, The house still retains traditional public and lounge bars and is one of the last unspoilt taverns in the city.
The jukebox in the public bar is worth a visit to the pub alone for its great choice of rock music.
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Pub Operator:
Fuller Smith & Turner |
see also
Best Ale Houses |
Licenced Opening Hours:
Mon-Thu 07:00 'til 01:00;
Fri-Sun 07:00 'til 02:00
some Bank Holiday extensions |
| Colour photographs, clockwise from top left: 13th July 2008;
19th September 2004;
November 1998 (by Ray Scarfe) 11th May 1989 |
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| The Fleet |
1 King Henry I Street, Landport, PO1 2PS |
| 023 9283 0150 |
  Starting life as the Fleet & Firkin in 1997, the pub is housed in a former Royal Navy fire station and was converted at much expense by the then national brewer Allied Domecq. Sadly Allied lost interest in the Firkin brewpub concept (although the Fleet never actually brewed) and sold the chain to rivals Bass (Mitchells & Butlers). The real ales all disappeared and the pub lost its popularity. It now pulls in students with cheap drinks promotions and bar food, in direct competition with Wetherspoon's next door. A sad demise of a once good pub.
| Pub Operator: Mitchells & Butlers |
Photographs, left to right:
19th September 2004; unknown (by Ray Scarfe) |
| Licenced Opening Hours:
Mon-Sat 10:00 'til 03:30;
Sun 10:00 'til 01:30 |
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   Yet another pub which was built to a design by A E Cogswell, the Florence Arms was constructed in 1924 to replace an earlier pub of the same name. Following major flooding in the locality, the pub underwent a comprehensive refurbishment around the turn of the century and what we now have is a very popular, traditional two bar corner house, with a seperate restaurant/function room on the south side.
The welcome is always friendly and the bar is often very busy, especially at weekends.
The house attracts a good number of loyal local patrons, as well as its fair share of visitors during the summer months. In 2007 licencees Greg and Jane relaunched the pub as a cider house, serving around a hundred different varieties, including six on draught. Those who prefer cask conditioned ales shall not be disappointed, as three or four real ales are always available, including examples from local microbreweries. All in all, this is one of the best run public houses in Southsea and is well worth a visit.
| Pub Operator: Punch Taverns |
see also Best Ale Houses |
Licenced Opening Hours:
Mon Tue Wed 08:00 'til 00:30
Thu Fri Sat 08:00 'til 01:30;
Sun 08:00 'til 00:00
Bank Holiday extensions |
Photographs,clockwise from top left:
16th April 2008;
April 1999 (by Ray Scarfe)
April 1999 (by Ray Scarfe);
11th May 1989
16th April 2008; 19th September 2004 |
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| The Florist |
324 Fratton Road, Buckland, PO1 5JX |
| 023 9282 0289 |
   This striking 1924 construction by prolific Portsmouth architect A E Cogswell is one of the most attractive pubs on Portsea Island. Built for the Brickwoods Brewery to replace an earlier pub, the structure is similar in design to the former Seagull pub on Broad Street (see closed pubs), with its witch's hat tower.
The original tiled fascia was destroyed by Wadworth when they bought the pub in the 1990s from Whitbread. The pub retains two bars, with the public bar at the front and the lounge at the rear. Good quality Wadworth ales are served. A regular CAMRA Good Beer Guide entry.
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Pub Operator:
Wadworth & Co |
Colour photographs, left to right:
14th May 2009
18th February 1990
matchbox label image kindly supplied by Rob Hall |
Licenced Opening Hours:
Mon-Sun 10:00 'til 00:30 |
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| The Fort Cumberland Arms |
125 Eastney Road, Eastney, PO4 9JB |
| 023 9286 4994 |
   Located at a busy traffic junction, the Fort Cumberland Arms was built for the Longs Brewery in the 1920s and later passed to Whitbread following a series of takeovers and mergers. The Longs name is still in evidence on the four front windows and these are now extremely rare examples.
Now consisting of a single u-shaped bar room, the interior is a little dated. The Fort Cumberland attracts a mainly local clientele and is certainly one of the pubs in the city that could be at risk from future closure, despite the 'protected lease' that exists on the building (which protects the pub from being converetd to residential use). No cask ale is served.
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Pub Operator: Punch Taverns |
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Photographs, clockwise from top left:
13th July 2008;
unknown date
3rd January 2005;
11th August 2011
11th May 1989 |
Licenced Opening Hours:
Mon-Thu 11:00 'til 00:30;
Fri Sat 11:00 'til 01:30;
Sun 12:00 'til 00:00;
Bank Holiday extensions |
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| The Fountain |
163 London Road, North End, PO2 9AA |
| 023 9266 1636 |
  Built at the turn of the 20th century to replace an earlier pub of the same name, the Fountain is a typically grand Cogswell design and was part of the Pike Spicer Brewery's estate. Now consisting of a large u-shaped bar area with a seperate room to the rear, the pub also has a covered courtyard where smokers can shelter during inclement weather. The pub caters for a mainly regular, but varied, clientele.
An assortment of framed historic pub photos and prints can be found on the walls throughout the main bar area. Real ales are usually Fullers (Gales) HSB and one from Portsmouth's Irving Brewery.
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Pub Operator:
Tumbling Inns (Enterprise Inns) |
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| Licenced Opening Hours: Mon-Sun 10:00 'til 00:30 |
Photographs, clockwise from top left:
April 1999
(by Ray Scarfe);
14th August 1988; 15th July 2007 |
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| The Froddington Arms |
55 Fratton Road, Fratton, PO1 5AB |
| 023 9282 3391 |
  Named after the old word for Fratton, the Froddington is very much a local's local on the main shopping street, close to Fratton railway station.
Former pubs on the same site include the Plough & Spade and the Swiss Gardens.
This former Brickwoods pub now attempts to draw in punters by offering drinks promotions to potential customers, but it will inevitably lose out to the Wetherspoon establishment located diagonally opposite. Many of the Fratton Road pubs owe their existance to their proximity to Portsmouth Football Club's Fratton Park ground, located within a fifteen minute walk of the Froddington.
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Pub Operator: Enterprise Inns |
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Licenced Opening Hours:
Mon-Sat 10:00 'til 23:30; Sun 12:00 'til 22:50 |
Colour photographs, clockwise from top left:
18th March 2008; 4th February 2007; July 1990 |
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| The Fuzzy Duck |
4-8 Guildhall Walk, Landport, PO1 2DD |
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  Housed in the former Po Na Na nightclub and before that Ellie Jay's, this building consists of three adjoining properties. Nos. 4-6 once housed the Waterloo Inn, whilst no. 8 was home to the Nine Elms Tavern (as seen at roof level). Both houses closed in the mid 1970s and soon fell into disuse before eventually merging to become the aforementioned Ellie Jay's in the late 1980s. Nowadays, the Fuzzy Duck is a self-styled theme pub aimed at young revellers. Expect high volume music, bottled lagers, cocktails and queues at the bar!
Note: this premises is only open evenings/night time.
| Pub Operator: Rujeca Trading Ltd |
Photographs, left to right:
13th July 2008; 18th March 2007 |
Licenced Opening Hours:
Mon-Thu 10:00 'til 01:30; Fri-Sat 10:00 'til 02:30;
Sun 12:00 'til 01:00 |
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| Please note that the Licenced Opening Hours stated are the hours for which each premises has a licence to open its doors to the public. The hours for sale of alcoholic liquor may well be shorter than the Licenced opening hours. Some pubs may choose to open for shorter hours than their licence allows. Therefore it is always adviseable to check ahead to ensure that the premises shall be open at the time of your planned visit. |
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