Sun Inn, Belton

Former coaching inn dating back to the 16th century, this is a pub that it very little changed since the mid 1960s and is free of most of modern pub trappings. There is no music, the TV is rarely switched on, food is only sold on a Friday night, the pool table is tucked away and the fruit machine no longer works!

Centre of village terraced and rendered two-storey building with two entrance doors. The left entrance still has its ‘Lounge’ illuminated sign above the door from the days of Watneys ownership. The inner door leads to a small red quarry tiled floor room having a 1950s brick fireplace with a coal fire, small bare benches to the left and right of the fireplace, and wall benches under the front and rear windows. There is a small counter with possibly a hardboard front painted claret.

Up a step to the right is a narrow area in front of the servery with only space for bar stools. The sloping counter front might be of hardboard painted claret. The bar back has a mirror mosaic backing and wooden shelving so looks very 1960s.

Up two steps and through a doorway to a room on the right with a bare wood floor and a lovely 1930s Art Deco tiled fireplace with a stove in front of it and an Ind Coope Burton Ales mirror. There is a brick arch opening to the servery i.e. cut into the wall and darts. The right hand exterior entrance that leads to this room has a ‘bar’ illuminated sign above the door from the days of Watneys ownership.

On the left of the red tiled floor room is a door with the figure ‘1’ leading to a small room with carpet, a pool table but no old fittings. Closed on Monday; opens from 6pm Tue to Sat; Sun 12 to 6.