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This village local acted as a court house until the 19th century and retains many early features including the tiled floor around the bar area, bench seating and bay windows from the 1930s. Toad in the hole is still played on a very old board in the low-ceilinged games room. The focus is now on food (booking for meals recommended), but there is still a good pub vibe at the bar, attracting visitors, locals and walkers on the South Downs Way. The pub is situated close to the Burning Sky Brewery and one of their beers is often available. Also near the Charleston Farmhouse, home to Vanessa Bell and a favourite haunt of the Bloomsbury Group. Letting rooms are usually sold out during the Glyndebourne Festival (mid-May to end of Aug). Real cider available from the cellar (ask).

Information for this venue is provided by the Brighton & South Downs Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
Lewes District
Last updated
22/01/2025
Last surveyed
23/01/2024
Leasehold owner
unknown
Freehold owner
unknown
Pub ID
BRI/52
Asset of Community Value

Two star - A pub interior of very special national historic interest

Listed status: II

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.  The tiled and parquet flooring is also old. 

An eighteenth-century, part-flint, part-tile-hung building with three pub rooms and which remained unspoilt whilst in Mrs Mary Hufnet's family from 1908 to the 1980s.

The small original public bar has a quarry-tiled floor, dado panelling with some attached benching and a disused hatch that served the room behind. Both the panelled counter and the lower parts of the bar back are old but the upper section of the latter is from 2005.

A door to the left of the servery leads down to a snug/games room where the parquet floor and brick fireplace are from the 1930s but the dado panelling and attached benches are older.

Some years ago, the bar was opened up to the bare-boarded left-hand room; floor and ceiling markings show the former position of the dividing wall. From this area, steps lead to a room that, until the late nineteenth century, doubled as a court house. It has a bare, uneven wood floor and a fine old fireplace.

General information about historic pub interiors

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.

General information about historic pub interiors
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Monday
9:00am - 11:00pm
Tuesday
9:00am - 11:00pm
Wednesday
9:00am - 11:00pm
Thursday
9:00am - 11:00pm
Friday
9:00am - 11:00pm
Saturday
9:00am - 11:00pm
Sunday
9:00am - 11:00pm
Monday
9:00am - 9:30pm
Tuesday
9:00am - 9:30pm
Wednesday
9:00am - 9:30pm
Thursday
9:00am - 9:30pm
Friday
9:00am - 9:30pm
Saturday
9:00am - 9:30pm
Sunday
9:00am - 9:30pm

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Current beers

This Pub serves 3 changing beers and 1 regular beer.

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Sussex Best Bitter - Harvey's
Harvey's - Sussex Best Bitter Session Bitter • 4% Spotted 4 times.
Sussex Best Bitter - Harvey's
Harvey's - Sussex Best Bitter

This beer is served regularly and Spotted 4 times. at Ram Inn, Firle.

ABV 4%
Dispense Handpump
Style Session Bitter
Colour
Vegan No
Gluten Free No
Changing

Changing beers typically include: Burning Sky (varies) , Long Man (varies)

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Facilities
Lunchtime Meals Lunchtime Meals
breakfast 9-11 lunch 12-3 bar menu 12-6.30
Evening Meals Evening Meals
6.30-9.30
Garden Garden
Family Friendly Family Friendly
Parking Parking
Dog Friendly Dog Friendly
Accommodation Accommodation
6 letting rooms, proposed to increase to 8
Function Room Function Room
Games Games
Real Fire Real Fire
Smoking Smoking
Wi Fi Wi Fi
Features
Cask Ale Cask Ale
Real Cider Real Cider
South Downs or Ascension
Real Heritage Pub Real Heritage Pub
Cask Marque Cask Marque
Cask Marque Beer and Cellar Hygiene rating
Cask Marque: Beer and Cellar Hygiene rating 4 out of 5
Transport
Close to bus routes
Compass: 125 (Mon - Fri); Cuckmere Buses: 125 (Sat)
Closest station (1900m)
Glynde

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