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Now part of the Big Smoke Brewing Co empire with a similar format to their other pubs. More than 100 years old. The pub is named after a gateway that existed within the old Oatlands Estate as part of the mansion’s formal gardens. The pub is on a corner site and the one large open space curves round this corner, with the bar to the right when you enter. Decorated in a modern style with varnished wood floor, painted wooden boarding to window level and painted walls above. 18 keg taps complement the hand pulled ales and ciders. Popular for food as well as the ale and cider. Steak night Thursday. Quiz night Sunday.
Historic Interest
The pub was built sometime in the 1850s for Joseph Ball who had purchased the land as Lot 32 when the Oatlands Estate was sold off in building plots at the sale of 19th of May 1846. The lot included the rudimentary road adjacent to the pub, which was named Ball's Road until being changed to St Mary's Road after the Chapel of St Mary, Oatlands was built in 1862 (the chapel became a church in 1869 when the Parish of St Mary, Oatlands was created). The pub first appears in the 1861 Census, when it was being run by William Searle. The pub remained in the ownership of the Ball family until at least 1892.
This Pub serves 2 changing beers and 1 regular beer.
Flintgate, Oatlands
Changing beers typically include: Big Smoke (varies)
Lunchtime Meals
Evening Meals
Garden
Family Friendly
Parking
Dog Friendly
Smoking
Wi Fi
Real Ale
Real Cider
LocAle
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