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Gate Inn, Awsworth

Main Street, Awsworth, NG16 2RN (View on Google Map)
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Deemed to be unviable and sold by the pub’s former owners, the Gate Inn re-opened in December 2010 as a free house and has quickly established itself as a quality real ale outlet, winning Nottingham CAMRA’s Pub of Excellence award in 2011 and Nottingham CAMRA LocAle Pub of the Year in 2013. A truly welcoming and friendly local, this late 19th century pub has a bar and a lounge. The current owners have gradually renovated the pub and have added a skittle alley, rooftop terrace, an outside courtyard at the rear. In February 2016, the main bar was refurbished and an old fireplace rediscovered, which now houses a log burning stove. The doorway leading into the bar has been made into an archway. The Forty Arches room (front right) and Snug (front left) were refurbished in April 2017.

Home of the Black Pigs Morris Men.

Historic Interest

Registered as an Asset of Community Value 20th May 2016 and nominated by the Nottingham Branch of CAMRA. The Gate Inn has an historic interior rated by CAMRA as being of Regional Importance. "A three-storey building pub in Georgian-style but dating from c.1880. Originally, it is thought, the pub consisted of a bar with servery, situated where you now find the inside toilets on the right, and the small snug on the left, with a passageway between them. Then in the 1950s two former private rooms at the rear were brought into use – a bar with new servery on the rear left and a lounge on the rear right - and the pub has barely changed since. The central entrance leads into a T-shaped hall with staircase leading to a function room. This area is a popular ‘drinking passage’ with a few tables and chairs; the servery is straight ahead with a small hatch counter – the panelled front of which is of a 50s style and has a Formica top. Front-left snug is used for pool and has very old fixed benches all round, but the fireplace has been removed. Rear-left is the main bar with 1950s counter and plain bar back, fixed seating could be of similar vintage but there is no fireplace. Rear-right is a lounge with plushly upholstered benches each side and service from a door-hatch with panelling below, all of 1950s vintage; as could be the fireplace. Most walls are in 'Artex' style with applied timbers. Original doors and door surrounds throughout. The former skittle alley has been converted into a smoking area by removing one wall." "Update April 2012. This former Hardy & Hansons pub is now a free house selling a range of real ales. A new extension is being built to house: new toilets including a disabled one: a corridor to the skittle alley: on the first floor toilets for the function room: an outside drinking/smoking area. The existing gents’ and ladies’ toilets are to be converted back into a room (licensees say it was originally a living room) and then the pool table will be moved into the new room (it may have an arched entrance) and the present pool room on the left will become a snug. In the public bar the darts has been moved and a short partition added around it. In the lounge the 1960s timbering on the walls will be removed and a Victorian-style fireplace put back in. These seems to be sympathetic alterations leaving the previous layout intact and passageway drinking will continue (www.pubheritage.camra.org.uk). Freehold NT441644 held by Kanidae Limited (Reg. No. 7428980) as at November 2017. [Broxtowe Borough Council; Awsworth, Cossall & Trowell / Broxtowe Parliamentary Constituency] Asset of Community Value awarded by Broxtowe on 6 January 2023 (five years) following nomination by Nottingham CAMRA

Information for this venue is provided by the Nottingham Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
Broxtowe District (B)
Last updated
10/09/2023
Last surveyed
17/08/2023
Pub ID
NOT/92
Asset of Community Value

One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest

Listed status: Not listed

A Georgian-style, mid-Victorian building, though only the snug on the left survives from the original layout - it has old fixed benches but the fireplace has gone. Most of what we see dates from a 1950s remodelling which brought two living rooms at the back into pub use. One is the main bar with a 1950s counter and plain bar back and fixed seating of the same vintage. The other room serves as a lounge - all the fittings seem to be from the 1950s refit. The central entrance leads into a T-shaped hall with staircase to a function room. This area is a popular 'drinking passage' with a few tables and chairs and the servery straight ahead with a small fifties-style hatch counter. The pool room is a recent creation in space previously occupied by toilets.

General information about historic pub interiors

A three-storey building pub in Georgian-style but dating from c.1880. Originally, it is thought, the pub consisted of a bar with servery, situated where you now find the inside toilets on the right, and the small snug on the left, with a passageway between them. Then in the 1950s two former private rooms at the rear were brought into use – a bar with new servery on the rear left and a lounge on the rear right - and the pub has barely changed since. The central entrance leads into a T-shaped hall with staircase leading to a function room. This area is a popular ‘drinking passage’ with a few tables and chairs; the servery is straight ahead with a small hatch counter – the panelled front of which is of a 50s style and has a Formica top. Front-left snug is used for pool and has very old fixed benches all round, but the fireplace has been removed. Rear-left is the main bar with 1950s counter and plain bar back, fixed seating could be of similar vintage but there is no fireplace. Rear-right is a lounge with plushly upholstered benches each side and service from a door-hatch with panelling below, all of 1950s vintage; as could be the fireplace. Most walls are in 'Artex' style with applied timbers. Original doors and door surrounds throughout. The former skittle alley has been converted into a smoking area by removing one wall.

Update April 2012. This former Hardy & Hansons pub is now a free house selling a range of real ales. A new extension is being built to house: new toilets including a disabled one: a corridor to the skittle alley: on the first floor toilets for the function room: an outside drinking/smoking area. The existing gents’ and ladies’ toilets are to be converted back into a room (licensees say it was originally a living room) and then the pool table will be moved into the new room (it may have an arched entrance) and the present pool room on the left will become a snug. In the public bar the darts has been moved and a short partition added around it. In the lounge the 1960s timbering on the walls will be removed and a Victorian-style fireplace put back in. These seems to be sympathetic alterations leaving the previous layout intact and passageway drinking will continue.

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Opening
Monday
Noon - 11:00pm
Tuesday
Noon - 11:00pm
Wednesday
Noon - 11:00pm
Thursday
Noon - 11:00pm
Friday
Noon - Midnight
Saturday
Noon - Midnight
Sunday
Noon - 11:00pm
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Facilities
Garden Garden
Rear courtyard, rooftop sun terrace and front patio
Family Friendly Family Friendly
Disabled Access Disabled Access
Also disabled toilets
Parking Parking
Dog Friendly Dog Friendly
Events Events
Comedy nights
Function Room Function Room
Refurbished in 2018
Games Games
Skittles, dominoes, shooting club
Real Fire Real Fire
Separate Bar Separate Bar
Smoking Smoking
Features
Real Ale Real Ale
Real Cider Real Cider
Real Heritage Pub Real Heritage Pub
LocAle LocAle
Quiet Quiet
Transport
Close to bus routes (300m)
TB: R1; Notts & Derby: 27
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