This Pub is Permanently Closed
CLOSED late April 2017. Planning app 18/08482/FULL "Use of basement, ground and first floors of Sussex House from Class A4 (Drinking establishment) to Class A1 (Retail)". Permitted Feb 2019.
Previous description follows:
A roomy two bar pub on the corner with Long Acre, the Sussex attracts office workers, visitors and theatre goers. Licensed in 1848 as the Sussex Stores and rebuilt in 1936 by Charles Holden in front of a railway electricity substation. The pub was a victim of the IRA bombing campaign when one exploded in the gents in 1992, killing one customer and injuring four others. Like many pubs in the area it can get very busy in the evening.
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