Stile Inn, Wolverhampton

A late-Victorian (1900) backstreet corner pub. Good exterior with turreted oriel window on the corner. Seemingly unaltered layout though some alterations were apparently made in 1921. Front door leads into a lobby with red brick-shaped tiled floor laid diagonally. The inner door in a full height part glazed screen leads to a wide hall with more red brick-shaped tiles laid diagonally. A doorway on the left leads to the excellent public bar on the corner with a bare wood floor, a chunky bar counter, old bar-back with mirrors, old bench seating all round, a modern tiled and cast-iron surround fireplace, door with etched panel, and old dado panelling.

Tiled L-shaped corridor around the back of the bar leads to the rear-left traditional smoke room that has an old door with etched and frosted panel, reproduction Victorian fireplace in 1930s Art Deco wood surround fireplace; fixed seating is old, possibly Victorian and service is via hatch in the passage to the back of the bar.

Across the corridor to the right is a plain separate room used for pool with old wood surround fireplace but modern tiled and cast-iron hearth, some old fixed seating and one (of three originally) 'Smoke Room' etched windows. There is another small room off the rear tiled passage with a small Victorian fireplace but no other old fittings.

There is good surviving etched and colourful stained glass 'Outdoor Dept.' panel between the bar and the smoke room indicating where the now disused off sale was situated. Behind the pub is a very unusual L-shaped bowling green; the stables block next to it was part of the predecessor pub.