This Pub is Permanently Closed
A former Truman's pub not far down the road from the Army & Navy. As of May 2013 it has been demolished. Sad loss for a fine building, despite recent local listing, and site for sale for £1.2m, with planning permission for retail and nine flats above.
Historic Interest
Local listing from 2012:- This former public house is two storeys with an additional attic storey located in the roof. The pubic house is detached and comprises of a L-shaped plan with rear courtyard and single storey detached outbuilding. The north and west facing façades comprise a ceramic-tiled ground storey and red brick first floor with steeply pitched tiled roof with copper flashings. The western pitch has three flat roofed dormer windows and overhanging eaves. The northern pitch also has three dormers but they are concealed behind a raised parapet wall at the edge of which are two dominant chimney stacks decorated with stucco swags connected by a render frieze. The hipped roof to the east terminates at projecting eaves and has a single dormer. First floor rectangular window openings are headed with 'Deco' keystone stucco motif and contain original sash windows (albeit boarded up to western facade), and a hexagonal window opening to the northern elevation probably contains the original steel window. All ground floor openings are boarded up and the original lettering of the pub sign has been removed. The projecting sign which has a portrait of Thomas Howard 21st Earl of Arundel (1585-1646) remains. The south-facing rendered flank wall suggests that it was originally end of terrace. The ground floor contains the main bar and public areas, the first floor contains the function rooms and the second floor contains bedsits.
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