An outside smoking area has allowed the Lounge Bar/Dining Area to become more Family friendly. The largish garden also caters for families. Pool, Darts & Bar Billiards are played in the Public Bar area.
Jan 2016 - pub closed - possible planning application for change to residential use. May 2016 - pub open again.
4 handpumps, but currently none in use.
One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest
Listed status: Not listed
Originally a three-bar pub, the front two bars have been amalgamated, but the dual counter indicates the original layout. Original counters and bar backs, and half-panelled walls survive.
A brick Neo-Georgian pub of 1938, possibly to designs by J.L. Denman, in-house architect to the Kemp Town Brewery (taken over by Charringtons in 1954). It originally had three bars and an off-licence shop. The two bars on the Manor Hall Road side were linked in the early 1980s but retain their original counters (with a dumb waiter set between), most of the bar backs, half-panelled walls, and a fireplace on the left. The off-sales shop which operated until the 1970s is now the bar billiards area. The rear bar has its original counter, the majority of its back fitting and half-height panelled walls, but the fireplace is new. Lots of panelling in the lobby and near the toilets. The fixed seating is new but the pub retains its original internal doors and interestingly shaped windows.
Romans, Southwick