Rose & Crown, Nottingham

A mid-20th century Mock Tudor roadhouse pub on a major route into Nottingham, the Rose and Crown is one of only two pubs in the City's Wollaton East and Lenton Abbbey Ward. Built in 1936 for Shipstone's on the site of an earlier pub of the same name, which now lies beneath the car park. Because of potential flooding from the adjacent River Leen, the pub cellars were built within a coffer dam and the new pub floors raised two feet above the earlier floor level. Large upstairs function room (Wollaton Suite) with period ceiling moulding. The earlier pub was owned by Lord Middleton and in the 1880s a former carpenter on the Wollaton Estate called John Mills became publican. Mills played 11 cricket matches for Nottinghamshire and on his debut in 1875 he scored six runs before being caught and bowled by a certain W.G. Grace. Mills brewed his own beer but in 1922, Shipstone's acquired the Old Rose and Crown by auction for £8,225 and it became a brewery tied house. (Lenton Times Issue 3 November 1989).

Asset of Community Value listed 19th May 2016, nominated by the Nottingham Branch of CAMRA.

The Rose & Crown has a place on Nottingham's Local Heritage List as Heritage Asset 139 (formerly Nottingham Civic Society's Draft Heritage List (09 December 2013)), which notes the architects as Eberlin & Darbyshire.

[Nottingham City Council, Wollaton East & Lenton Abbey Ward / Nottingham South Parliamentary Constituency]