A genuine community traditional pub with a small cosy lounge bar used for dining during the day and a larger traditional public bar. Known locally as the 'pink pub' due to the vivid colour of the building it is an unmistakeable landmark.
The pub is a Grade 2 listed building and CAMRA pub heritage group are looking to add this pub to their regional inventory for its unchanged two-room layout this is little altered since the inter-war period.
One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest
Listed status: II
This two-room pub, once belonging to brewers Henty & Constable of Chichester, is in a building probably dating from the seventeenth century, according to the grade II listing. It received an inter-war refit, some features of which survive, particularly in the rear public bar with its plain counter and bar-back shelving, wall-panelling, brick fireplaces and Tudor-style panelled ceiling (this might be post-war). The front lounge bar, mainly for diners, also has an attractive counter, two brick fireplaces, a full-height baffle by the front door and slatted wood-panelled walls. The exterior is painted in an old English colour called cinnabar, hence the pub’s nickname of the ‘Pink Pub’. Toilets modernised.
Two room pub whose grade 11 listing dates it probably C17. A former Constable & Henty pub which has an inter war refit with some surviving fixtures and fittings, particularly in the rear public bar with its plain bar counter and bar back shelving, wall panelling, brick fireplaces and mock tudor panelled ceiling (which could be post war?). The front lounge bar, mainly for diners, also has an attractive bar counter, two brick fireplaces, a full height baffle by the front door and slatted wood panelled walls as well as part of the ceiling. The exterior is painted in an old English colour called cinnabar, hence the pubs's nickname of the "Pink Pub". Toilets fully modernised.
This Pub serves 1 changing beer and 1 regular beer.
Royal Oak, North Bersted