A traditional town pub with two rooms - a fairly basic front bar accessed off the Market Place, and a superb panelled snug, C18 or earlier, with wood panelling, low beams and fixed bench seating, listed by CAMRA for it's historic interior and accessed down a passageway off East St Helen Street and linked to the bar through a serving hatch. First recorded as an inn in 1775 and has had various names. Has increasingly rare etched glass windows with the insignia of Morlands 'United Breweries'.
Historic Interest
Listed as early C17 timber-framed, brick building. On CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors grade One Star.
One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest
Listed status: II
A partly early seventeenth-century timber-framed building. It’s included here for the Oak Room, a delightful low-ceilinged lounge accessed on the side via a brick-floored passageway. The walls of this carpeted room have eighteenth-century (or earlier) dark wood panelling and some fixed bench seating along the outside wall. The fielded-panelled counter appears to be interwar, as does the fire-surround and three movable benches which carry a band of pretty decoration. The little alcove is in fact a fairly modern creation. A plan in the modernised public bar at the front, and dating perhaps from the interwar period, shows there was a staircase in this area. The plan also shows that the front bar formerly had three small rooms.
This Pub serves 1 changing beer and 1 regular beer.
Punchbowl, Abingdon
Changing beers typically include: Greene King (varies) , Timothy Taylor - Landlord
Source: National