Black Horse, Hose

UPDATE 2013.

Closed as a pub and was converted to housing. This pub is therefore re-categorised as Permanently Closed.

The former description is shown below. 





A three roomed village pub retaining a lot of interwar fittings. The splendid small Tap Room has a quarry tiled floor, old white painted bench seating and an overlaid wooden counter. Lounge is two rooms conjoined, date uncertain. Segmental curved bar, canopied - shutters removed. There is a snug area around the brick fireplace with modern room heater. Rear lounge looks good but is mainly modern work, 1980s oak panelling, but does have a fine 1930s nogged brick fireplace and bay window. Skittle alley (now in a poor state) and lavatory block extension at rear. Many original doors, some sign-written. the panelling in the restaurant is fifteen years old, but most other alterations are over fifty years old. The pull-down sash is in the skittle alley. The off-sales servery is still used. Pub has only had three landlords in over 40 years. There is a piece of the original stained glass windows in a frame on the restaurant fireplace. Fixed bench seating in the bar is superb, as are the original doors with leaded glass. New windows by Castle Rock were not a good idea.