Large local pub dating from 1940. The Jacobean-style exterior has many large windows comprising of lots of small panes. Inside wooden-panelling covers the lower half of the walls. The bar is L-shaped with carpeted seating areas on either side with fixed bench seating along the walls. In one corner is a large area with pool table and dartboard.
One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest
Listed status: Not listed
Opened in 1940, the Hanover was a high-quality new-build by John Smith’s Tadcaster Brewery, designed by their company architect Bertram Wilson in the style of a spacious Jacobean country house. The quality of the original scheme can still be appreciated in the décor and fittings of the excellent foyer-lounge (‘Blue Room’) and in the toilets, both sets of which are impressively authentic and intact. Little else, though, has escaped a degree of post-war re-vamping and the merging of the tap room and old off-sales is as recent as 2005.
Hanover Arms, Leeds
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