Turks Head, Retford

Rebuilt 1936 in stone with Brewers Tudor first floor and a coaching arch on the left – an ex Wards of Sheffield pub. It retains most of its original 1930s fittings but the original three small rooms and an off sales have been joined together. Front door lobby has inner doors to Smoke Room left and Public Bar right but the partition that separated them has been removed. A door on the right hand side of the building leads to a lobby with 1930s tiling on the dado and the original inner door looks like it led to a still remaining off sales hatch in the servery. Throughout the pub the walls have oak fielded panelling to picture-frame height. At the front on both the left and right are two original wood surround fireplaces with copper interiors – note the Turk's head symbol on the copper canopy. There are baffles at the end of the original fixed seating in both parts. The counter with its fielded panelling is original as is the bar back fitting but the servery may have been cleverly altered to serve the conjoined front rooms; however, you can't see the join.

The rear area now acts as a pool room with a parquet floor, a fireplace with an original wood surround but possibly 1960s copper interior and with two service bells above plus more original fixed seating. In the wall on the left is a gap ( originally a sliding screen?) that is now used for a food servery. The rare pub game of Ring the Bull is played here.