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Old Thistle Inn, Westruther

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This Pub is Closed Long Term

DEC 2023 - Shown as permanently closed on Google. Advertised for sale as a pub. Based on Google Street View the pub closed sometime in 2021 and has been advertised for sale since early 2023.

An old Inn in small village that opened circa 1721.

NO REAL ALE (but has a keg beer from Tempest)

Information for this venue is provided by the Edinburgh & South East Scotland Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
Scottish Borders
Last updated
28/01/2024
Last surveyed
Leasehold owner
unknown
Freehold owner
unknown
Pub ID
EDN/1288
Asset of Community Value

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

Listed status: B

Built 1721 originally as two cottages and a coach house at one time, this is a country pub with three small rooms that last changed in the late 1940s. When the nearby Spottiswood House was demolished during World War II a number of fittings were imported to the pub. On the right is a very small public bar with an old bar counter, gantry, fixed seating and a semi-circular brick fireplace with wooden seats each side. The carved mantelpiece including a central mirror and carved eagle may be over 250 years old having come from Spottiswood House. A bell push on the left of the servery is unusually hidden by a flap with the wording "Ring". In the entrance passage there is the old off-sales hatch at the bottom of the stairs. To the left is a small lounge with old 'Lounge' lettering on the door. The rooms retain their numbers.

General information about historic pub interiors

Built 1721 originally as two cottages and a coach house at one time, this is a country pub with three small rooms that last changed in the late 1940s. When the nearby Spottiswood House was demolished during World War II a number of fittings were imported to the pub.

On the right is a very small public bar with an old bar counter to which new panels were added to the front in the late 1940s, and the gantry was formerly a hat stand, presumably added at the same time. The semi-circular brick fireplace also dates from the 1940s with wooden seats either side but the carved mantelpiece including a central mirror and carved eagle may be over 250 years old having come from the aforementioned Spottiswood House. The fixed seating dates to the 1940s and there is a display case on the counter. Look for the bell push on the left of the servery unusually hidden by a flap with the wording ‘Ring’.

In the entrance passage there is the old off-sales hatch at the bottom of the stairs. To the left is a small lounge which would have been in use as such for many years as there is old ‘Lounge’ lettering on the door from the far left entrance. The rooms retain their numbers – a figure ‘1’ over the public bar door; ‘2’ on the lounge door, and ‘3’ on the small room behind the servery, which now houses a pool table. From the late 1940s to 1986 this room housed a small cocktail bar. There is another small room on the far left brought into pub use in recent years which has a 1930s brick fireplace.

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