Ram Inn, Firle

Traces of the original layout can be discerned in this 18th century building, although there has been some opening up and extension in the latter part of the twentieth century.  The counter and parts of the bar back in the original public bar are genuinely old, and other fittings include dado panelling, which in the games room has wooden benches attached.  Tiled and parquet flooring are also old.  An eighteenth-century, part flint, part tile-hung building with three pub rooms. It was in Mrs Mary Hufnet's family from 1908 to the 1980's during which it remained unspoilt. The small original public bar has a red quarry tiled floor laid diagonally. It retains its old panelled bar counter with a shotblasted front. The bar back retains its old main shelf and a small piece of lower shelving but fridges elsewhere but the upper section dates from 2005 and is painted a dark green colour. In the left section is a now disused hatch still with its upper window that served the small room behind. Attached to the dado panellingis some bare wooden benching. To the left of the servery is a door and step down to the snug / games room with a parquet floor from the 1930s and a brick fireplace of a similar date with a log fire. The old dado panelling is painted dark green with old benches attached. There is a good number of cushions for the comfort of diners as this is more likely to be used by them than customers playing the local pub game of Toad in the Hole nowadays!The bar was opened-up to the bare boarded left-hand room some years ago – look at the floor and ceiling to see markings showing the position of where the dividing wall was positioned. The walls and dado panelling have been painted the ubiquitous grey-green colour and at the rear is an old fireplace.From the far left of this room some steps lead to a room that doubled as a court house until the late nineteenth century. It has a bare uneven wood floor and a fine old fireplace with good decoration at the top and a mirrored mantelpiece.