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This Pub is Closed Long Term
Situated two miles west of Norwich city-centre, this quirky 19th century traditional pub was built on the site of an old tollhouse. The interior comprises of two oak-panelled bars, with a roaring log fire in winter and a large garden going down to the River Wensum for the summer months.
Four excellently kept real ales are dispensed by handpump and gravity, with the handpumps sporting original pump-clips, and the Grain Oak at a very attractive price!
The pub fields two pool teams, a crib team and a darts team on Monday night. There's also music most nights: Irish Folk, Wednesday; Folk, Thursday and Celtic Folk Sunday, with 1950s and onward type music (live) and occasional guest musicians.
Two star - A pub interior of very special national historic interest
Listed status: II
An attractive ‘improved’ public house in a free vernacular style, completed in 1934 by Norwich brewers Morgans. There are, following some amalgamations in the 1970s, two bars with many original fittings. The public bar, with its original counter and back fitting, has been knocked through into what is now the games room (which has a fine semi-circular termination). The mullioned windows feature stained-glass roundels depicting symbols connected with the Bayeaux Tapestry. At the back are a loggia and extensive gardens leading down to the River Wensum.
An attractive 'improved' public house in a free vernacular style completed in 1934 for Nrworch brewers Morgans. Its mullioned windows featuring stained glass roundels of with various symbols relating to the Bayeaux Tapestry. The porch on the front of the pub was added in the 1970s in the style of the original building. The interior is panelled throughout.
On the right there was a passageway leading to the small counter - this was the original off-sales. In the 1970s the wall separating the off-sales and the snug on the right was removed. The public bar retains the original counter, bar back with old till drawer and a cigar cabinet with leaded windows. The original brick fireplace remains and in the mid 1980s panels were removed from either side of it to make access easier. To the left of the main bar a wall was removed in the early 1970s to link it with what is now a games room in the splendid circular tower-like section on the left of the building, which has its own entrance on the left side.
You will notice a small alcove just past the dividing wall - this was the original ladies which moved to the rear of the pub in the 1970s and involved shortening the original counter to what is now a small (disused) hatch. There is an original Tudor arch stone and brick fireplace in the games room. Note the decorative frieze of hops. The back door leads to an external staircase and at the bottom there is a loggia and extensive gardens to the River Wensum. A garden bar was added in the 1990s but is no longer in use.
Active Campaign
A community group based at the Marlpit Community Centre have launched a campaign to save the pub due to fears that the pub will be sold and changed to other uses. They also plan to carry out a consultation to gauge the views of local residents regarding the possibility of community ownership. The pub is registered as an Asset of Community Value.
See newspaper article for more details.
This Pub serves 1 changing beer and 1 regular beer.
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