The Junction High Wycombe is turned into flats

The Junction pub, on the corner of London Road and Cock Lane, has been overhauled into nine apartments after it shut its doors to customers back in April 2018.

In 2019, the Wellington Pub Company applied to turn the once-popular watering hole into flats because The Junction had been suffering "severe financial difficulties" since around 2016 and was formally repossessed in June 2018 with a "large outstanding debt".

The Junction

While plans to turn the pub into flats proved controversial, with campaigners pleading for it to be turned into a GP surgery instead, councillors on the then-Wycombe District Council planning committee gave them the green light on March 11 last year.

Former mayor and councillor and representative of the Ryemead Forum Trevor Snaith said it was a “sad day for High Wycombe” when the town loses a pub, adding that The Junction was an "iconic" building.

Despite this, the plans were given the go-ahead by 11 councillors, with just one voting against.

How it looks now

Work has been ongoing ever since to overhaul the pub and make it fit for new residents to move into. That work has now been completed, and the once empty pub has been given a new lease of life.

While some flats have already been snapped up, there are still some available to rent.

JNP Lettings are marketing the new flats, which all have gloss kitchens with built-in appliances, hydrogen boilers, walk-in showers and laminate flooring.

How it looks now

This one-bed, ground floor flat with one parking space, bathroom and one reception room is being offered for £895 a month unfurnished.

The once-drab car park at the front has been overhauled with paving, light-up bollards and a welcome bit of greenery along the otherwise busy A40, while residents' parking is on the right-hand side of the building.

The old porch at the entrance has been ripped down, which was something developers always wanted to do in a bid to make the most of the 1930s facade and make it more inviting.

The building has been transformed into flats

The building has had a long history as a pub. It used to be the Red Lion, which was rebuilt around 1932. The Red Lion was closed in July 2006 because it had "come to the end of its useful and economic life" and plans were instead put forward to knock it down and turn it into 12 flats, while also adding a "community facility".

This plan, and another that followed in 2010, were both refused by the council, and the boarded-up building was eventually reopened as a pub for the community.

You can view the full listing at www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/116846636