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Crooked Billet, Stoke Row

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Operator: Brakspear Pub Co
Newlands Lane, Stoke Row, RG9 5PU (View on Google Map)
  • Historic Interior

This is a restaurant, where drinking alcohol, including draught and bottled beer, is only allowed when food is being consumed.

Waiting staff will happily serve drinkers if a table is available inside or outside.

Multi award-winning restaurant run by Paul Clerehugh since 1989. No bar or drinking area, one real ale is available by gravity dispense from the cellar - usually Brakspear Gravity, but occasionally Oxford Gold instead.

Built in 1642, tucked away to the north of the village down a narrow lane, it operated as a smallholding selling locally produced ale from its tiny cellar.

Look out for the Midsomer red plaque.

Music nights featuring well-known acts are held regularly in a heated marquee connected to the pub.

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Historic Interest

Historic England Grade II listed, entry number 1180667. Built 17th century with probably mid-16th century front.

Historic England

Has been identified by CAMRA as having a pub interior of very special national historic interest - two star grading in the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

Information for this venue is provided by the South Oxfordshire Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
South Oxfordshire District
Last updated
29/10/2025
Last surveyed
02/08/2017
Leasehold owner
unknown
Freehold owner
Brakspear Pub Co
Pub ID
SOX/0360
Asset of Community Value

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

Listed status: II

Now primarily functioning as a restaurant, it is possible to have just a drink at some tables and in the garden. The two left-hand rooms retain great historic character.

On the far left is a small room with a large open fireplace and a quarry tile floor. The middle room has a wood block floor. The large room on the right seems to have been added in the nineteenth century. There is no bar counter so beer is fetched from the cellar.

General information about historic pub interiors

Hidden away down a narrow winding lane, this pub now primarily functions as a restaurant. However it still has an unspoilt interior with the two left-hand rooms retaining great historic character. Also, it does not have a bar counter (one of only eight such pubs remaining in the whole country) so beer is drawn directly from casks in the cellar and brought to your table. If you want to visit ‘just for a beer’ it is recommended you plan to arrive in the afternoon and best to ring ahead as the pub can close for parties. Otherwise, expect all the tables to be laid out for diners, but you can drink in the garden.

At least a 17th century brick building painted white with an extension to the right, also of brick, added in the 19th century. From the front door there is a passage formed by a part glazed partition wall. This leads into a very small room with a red tiled floor and large old wood surround & brick fireplace that almost reaches the beamed ceiling It has an ancient fireback and log fire. As well as the part glazed partition wall on the passage side there is another at the rear and both have old bench seating attached with cushions. There are just two scrubbed top tables and a tiny old cupboard in the top right of the wall by the fireplace.

A doorway on the other side of the entrance passage leads to another small room with a wood block floor, an old wood surround and brick fireplace with a log burning stove and a mantleshelf that almost reaches the beamed ceiling. The left and rear walls have a dado of old panelling and there is a corner cupboard.

The door on the right of the middle room leads into a red and black quarry tiled passage from the disused front door in the extension. A door on the other side leads to a large room originally a dormitory housing cherry pickers. Now a dining room it has an old wood surround fireplace with a stove.

General information about historic pub interiors
Monday
Noon - 11:00pm
Tuesday
Noon - 11:00pm
Wednesday
Noon - 11:00pm
Thursday
Noon - 11:00pm
Friday
Noon - 11:00pm
Saturday
Noon - 11:00pm
Sunday
Noon - 11:00pm
Monday
Noon - 2:45pm & 6:00pm - 9:30pm
Tuesday
Noon - 2:45pm & 6:00pm - 9:30pm
Wednesday
Noon - 2:45pm & 6:00pm - 9:30pm
Thursday
Noon - 2:45pm & 6:00pm - 9:30pm
Friday
Noon - 2:45pm & 6:00pm - 9:30pm
Saturday
Noon - 9:30pm
Sunday
Noon - 9:30pm

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Current beers

This Restaurant serves no changing beers and 1 regular beer.

Regular and recently seen

Brakspear - Gravity TasteMatch Prediction

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Brakspear - Gravity
Brakspear - Gravity Session Bitter • 3.4% Oxford Gold or Gravity
Brakspear - Gravity
Brakspear - Gravity

This beer is served regularly at Crooked Billet, Stoke Row.

Oxford Gold or Gravity

ABV 3.4%
Cask
Style Session Bitter
Colour
Vegan No
Gluten Free No

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Facilities
Lunchtime Meals Lunchtime Meals
Evening Meals Evening Meals
Live Music Live Music
Music nights are hosted in a centrally heated marquee connected to the pub
Garden Garden
Parking Parking
Real Fire Real Fire
Restaurant Restaurant
Features
Cask Ale Cask Ale
Real Heritage Pub Real Heritage Pub
Transport
Close to bus routes (350m)
Carousel Buses: 113 (Mon, Wed & Fri only - not public holidays; one return journey only; west/southbound service (1100 m from Church View) leaves before 10:30am); Oxfordshire County Council (Fleet Services): H1 (Thu only; one return journey only; the Henley-on-Thames bound service is before 11:00am)
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