Traditional pub
Reopened on 22nd October 2024 under new management following closure at the end of July 2024.
Refurbished interior with plenty of space around the U-shaped bar, and with the floor, walls and bar all predominantly wooden. To the rear is a secluded stone-flagged garden with benches and tables.
Provision of food is planned for the future.
The pub name is unique within Great Britain.
Instagram page is @the_lord_holmesdale
Historic Interest
This originally opened in the 1860s as the Carpenters Arms with the development of the area into workers' cottages and local industry. The railway opened in 1858, followed by the gas works in 1864. The pub was renamed after Viscount Holmesdale, who was the local MP 1859 to 1868, at a time when the pub was also used as a Masonic lodge. Homesdale Road was originally called Brick Kiln Lane due to the large brickfield that once existed nearby ("Homesdale" has always been spelt without the L). The original pub sign showed an earlier Lord Holmesdale (as portrayed by Joshua Reynolds), who was General Wolfe's commander at Quebec in 1759 as General Jeffery Amherst and received his peerage in 1776 as 1st Baron Amherst of Holmesdale.
This Pub serves no changing beers and 2 regular beers.
Lord Holmesdale, Bromley