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This is a traditional Sam Smiths pub on the main street through Framwellgate Moor on the outskirts of Durham. Pool, darts, dominoes and cards are all available to play, and if you're a collector of old bottles you might be interested in the Bottle Club meetings held on the second Tuesday of every month. Sadly the handpumps were removed by the brewery in December 2015 and keg Old Brewery Bitter provided as replacement.
Boarded up November 2021
Reopened July 2024 after long closure post lockdown with cask Old Brewery but withdrawn in August!!
The Marquis of Granby has an easily distinguishable floor plan and a number of old fittings including two hatches. The public bar on the left has a fine, possibly up to 100 year old, bar back with mirrored panels and the original till drawer, now full of sundry small items. The fixed seating could be 40+ years old and re-leatheretted, but the bar counter was replaced in the 1990s. A former bottle store at the rear left has been converted into a snug area and a wide archway cut for access from the bar. The fixed seating indicates this could have happened in the 1960s and there is an Art Deco-style wood surround fireplace which is difficult to date and may well have been imported from elsewhere. There is a splendid small room at the rear with older fixed seating and a hatch to the back of the bar. On the right is the games room, which also has a hatch for service. Sadly, the wall between the rear and right rooms was removed in the last century.
Across the road the Tap & Spile is run on very traditional lines with four small rooms and a passageway with hatch. There are few old fittings – indeed, the present counter is in a different position to the original one – but there is a wide choice of real ales in this Durham CAMRA Pub of the Year.
The Marquis of Granby has an easily distinguishable floor plan and a number of old fittings including two hatches. The public bar on the left has a fine, possibly up to 100 year old, bar back with mirrored panels and the original till drawer, now full of sundry small items. The fixed seating could be 40+ years old and re-leatheretted, but the bar counter was replaced in the 1990s. A former bottle store at the rear left has been converted into a snug area and a wide archway cut for access from the bar. The fixed seating indicates this could have happened in the 1960s and there is an Art Deco-style wood surround fireplace which is difficult to date and may well have been imported from elsewhere. There is a splendid small room at the rear with older fixed seating and a hatch to the back of the bar. On the right is the games room, which also has a hatch for service. Sadly, the wall between the rear and right rooms was removed in the last century.
Across the road the Tap & Spile is run on very traditional lines with four small rooms and a passageway with hatch. There are few old fittings – indeed, the present counter is in a different position to the original one – but there is a wide choice of real ales in this Durham CAMRA Pub of the Year.
Marquis of Granby, Framwellgate Moor
Source: National
Garden
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Games
Separate Bar
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