Arrow, Arnold

1998 built public house on the site of an earlier, smaller Home Ales pub of the same name. The previous building was a postwar estate pub with a distinctive sloping roof, perhaps intended to mimic an arrowhead. The old Arrow also had a large guided missile-like arrow perhaps 20ft tall standing vertically near the front door. "The replacement is itself curious and successful, designed externally to resemble a Victorian conservatory set between two rendered houses, and inside it is a large boomerang shaped hall with galleries at either end and a long, continuous bar on the inside wall. It has the very slightly louche, music hall atmosphere that Wetherspoon pubs lack. DC/A/4/12/66/514, Arnold UDC: Plans by Cecil Howitt and Partners for Home Brewery, dated 1 February 1967, show a big roofed building on the corner elevation, the lowest part containing single-storey pub accommodation comprising a near-circular lounge and public bar, with a zigzag separation between the two, rising to two-storey residential accommodation at the north-west end under the highest part of the roof. The structure seemed mainly to be of timber." [Elain Harwood / Historic England]. As at November 2017, the freehold for the Arrow (NT251049) was held by British Land Leisure Limited [Reg. No. 5215386].

[Gedling Borough Council; Ernehale Ward / Nottinghamshire County Council; Arnold South Division / Gedling Parliamentary Constituency].