Cricketers, Worcester

Three-storey house built c.1800 then converted to an inn. It was the Shakespeare until the 1990s and served as the interval pub for the nearby theatre. Although the ground floor room layout has been compromised there is much left from a good quality refurbishment in the 1950s, no doubt by Hunt Edmunds who owned the pub from 1936. On the left the walls are covered in panelling that is of a distinctive 1950s style (might be earlier) - a dado of vertical strips and fielded panelling with larger panels up to picture frame height. The semi island bar counter front has a 1950s style, the top could be of that date and the brick fireplace is a distinctive 1950s one. On the right the smaller room / area has a different style of panelling on the dado only now painted light grey, there is another 1950s brick fireplace and some fixed seating which may be of a similar date. The bar back fitting is modern. The door to the gents' loo has an old leaded glass window with some dimpled glass and 50s style diagonal lettering.

At the rear a staircase with good dado panelling matching the main bar right hand side style (and left hand side top panels) leads to a function room on the first floor. This Baronial-style room has panelling to the same design as downstairs (fielded pattern below, larger indented panels above) but has, unfortunately, been painted. The small items of pargetting depict heraldic devices - rose, lion, Fleur-de-lys, harp etc.