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Bush House, Bushmills


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72-74 Main Street, Bushmills, BT57 8QD (View on Google Map)
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Historic Interest

Circa 1834 Grade B2 Listed, reference HB05/08/082

Information for this venue is provided by the Northern Ireland Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
Causeway Coast and Glens
Last updated
29/07/2023
Last surveyed
Leasehold owner
unknown
Freehold owner
unknown
Pub ID
BEL/297
Asset of Community Value

Three star - A pub interior of outstanding national historic importance

Listed status: B

A three-room terraced pub where most of the interior work probably dates from just before WWII or possibly the 1950s but there is some earler work as well.

 The small front bar has a terrazzo floor and a fine Victorian bar-back fitting with four mirrors advertising various whiskies: the panelled counter is of the 1930s or 1950s and has a terrazzo trough along its base. The lounge at the rear of the pub has more terrazzo flooring, panelling and bell-pushes for service. The elegant mahogany fire surround is said to have been brought in from the former Arcadia ballroom in Portrush. The old kitchen (rear left), complete with white glazed brick and ‘Fairy Esse’ cooker, was pressed into public use later as the bell-pushes indicate. In recent years the wall separating the kitchen from the small front room (now games room) was removed. The ladies’ toilet penny-in-the-slot-device was still in use until the late 1990s.

General information about historic pub interiors

A three-room, rendered terraced pub where most of the interior work probably dates back to just prior to the Second World War (or shortly afterwards). Front right-hand door leads into a porch with yellow and red diamond quarry-tiled floor. The excellent small public bar has a terrazzo floor, a panelled bar counter that could date from the 1930s with a terrazzo trough along the base of it. The bar back consists of four advertising mirrors with optics attached to timber partially covering some mirrors. The mirrors advertise 'Brown Corbet & Co's Old Irish Whisky Belfast'; 'Dunville's Whisky'; 'Greer's OVH Old Vatted Highland Whiskey 10 Years Old'; and 'Dunville's Whisky'. The room has inter-war fielded panelled walls and a bell box is situated high up near the door.

A door with ‘Lounge’ painted on a 1930s ribbed glass panel leads to the small smoke room with more fielded panelling to two-thirds height and a terrazzo floor. The elegant fiddle back mahogany fire-surround is said to have been brought in from the former Arcadia ballroom in Portrush but it has recently lost it tiled interior. The bell-push here was still in use until 2005 and there are remains of the cantilever fitting above the door which rang a bell when the door was opened; the fixed seating is modern.

On the rear left the old kitchen, complete with white glazed brick, a still working 'Fairy Esse' cooker and black and red quarry tiled floor, was pressed into public use as the bell-pushes indicate. In recent years the wall that separated the former kitchen from the small front room, with its wooden floor and tiled fireplace, was removed. In the corridor that runs from the front left door, which has a diamond quarry tiled floor and inter-war fielded panelling, you will notice the door to the ladies’ toilet retains its penny-in-the-slot-device, which was still in use until the late 1990s! The outbuildings still retain some of the equipment for bottling Guinness but the rare traditional game of horseshoes, in which the aim is to land them on a pin, is no longer played in the yard at the insistence of the local Health & Safety Officer!

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