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Stone floors and scrubbed pine furniture set the tone of this pub which has been serving ale for nearly 300 years. There's a 'piano room' with no piano, and a 'pool room' with no pool table, and a rare example of a Twister on the ceiling is also noteworthy! Both have additional seating, as does a new room opened up on the far side of the kitchen when the pub changed hands and was refurbished in 2017.
Featuring a more focused menu since the change of ownership, the emphasis is till on traditional British dishes, sourced from local suppliers, the pub is busy with diners at lunchtime and in the early evening in the summer, but perfect for a pint and a natter at other times. If you fancy staying the night, book one of the rooms next door in the Old Post Cottage.
There is no bus service passing the pub, but there are two stops about a ten-minute (1250m) walk away.
Bookings only for food Monday and Tuesday evenings.
An excellent three-room pub which is very instructive in that one can see how it has grown over time and expanded into adjacent buildings. This seem to be a nineteenth-century building faced with flint cobbles and red-brick dressings under red pantiled roofs, so typical of the area. The original pub is in the block bearing the pub sign. Up to the early 1960s the pub only consisted of the current bar and a snug, which is now the servery. In view of its compactness it had a nickname of 'The Sentry Box'. To the left you will see a blocked up low arch which is also clearly visible inside too and was filled in in the mid 1960s. Old photographs on the wall show it with the cart entrance still open. Originally this was how you entered the pub - nowadays most customers enter via the rear of the premises though the door to the street from the cart arch area has recently been reopened..
The public bar is barely altered in many years with its quarry tile floor, dado panelling and scrubbed benches. In the windows are interesting metal grilles with the name of the former Norwich brewers, Steward & Patteson; such grilles seem to have been very common but are now a very rare feature. Take a look behind the servery and you will see the stub of a partition with a '2' on the end of it. Originally there was a sliding door across the gap between a passage to the rear and a tiny snug - hence the reason why there is a fireplace in what is now the servery. The sliding door has been retained and is situated between the present third room and the passage to the toilets. Whilst the cupboards within the servery area are genuinely old, the shelving was added in the mid 1980s, as was the floor since the old one collapsed. The beer was originally fetched from the cellar and the staircase down to it was on the left of the passage (now blocked up) but the '3' over the door has been retained. A hole was cut in the wall between the bar and the snug to create the small hatch/counter in the 1960s.
To the left of the coach arch was originally a general store which closed many years ago and when they took over in the mid 1980s the present owners did run it as a mini shop for the first 18 months before converting it to the third room. Although the second and third rooms do look authentic being crammed with various items of memorabilia including brewery and distillers' posters, an old Juke Box and one-armed bandits, farming implements etc. they are both creations - even the two doors with 'Billiards' and 'Room' etched glass panels on them have been imported.
An excellent three-room pub which is very instructive in that one can see how it has grown over time and expanded into adjacent buildings. This seem to be a nineteenth-century building faced with flint cobbles and red-brick dressings under red pantiled roofs, so typical of the area. The original pub is in the block bearing the pub sign. Up to the early 1960s the pub only consisted of the current bar and a snug, which is now the servery. In view of its compactness it had a nickname of 'The Sentry Box'. To the left you will see a blocked up low arch which is also clearly visible inside too and was filled in in the mid 1960s. Old photographs on the wall show it with the cart entrance still open. Originally this was how you entered the pub - nowadays most customers enter via the rear of the premises though the door to the street from the cart arch area has recently been reopened..
The public bar is barely altered in many years with its quarry tile floor, dado panelling and scrubbed benches. In the windows are interesting metal grilles with the name of the former Norwich brewers, Steward & Patteson; such grilles seem to have been very common but are now a very rare feature. Take a look behind the servery and you will see the stub of a partition with a '2' on the end of it. Originally there was a sliding door across the gap between a passage to the rear and a tiny snug - hence the reason why there is a fireplace in what is now the servery. The sliding door has been retained and is situated between the present third room and the passage to the toilets. Whilst the cupboards within the servery area are genuinely old, the shelving was added in the mid 1980s, as was the floor since the old one collapsed. The beer was originally fetched from the cellar and the staircase down to it was on the left of the passage (now blocked up) but the '3' over the door has been retained. A hole was cut in the wall between the bar and the snug to create the small hatch/counter in the 1960s.
To the left of the coach arch was originally a general store which closed many years ago and when they took over in the mid 1980s the present owners did run it as a mini shop for the first 18 months before converting it to the third room. Although the second and third rooms do look authentic being crammed with various items of memorabilia including brewery and distillers' posters, an old Juke Box and one-armed bandits, farming implements etc. they are both creations - even the two doors with 'Billiards' and 'Room' etched glass panels on them have been imported.
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It was one of Norfolk's most unspoilt alehouses for nearly 300 years, occupying just the block bearing the pub sign. Until the 1960s it comprised the current bar plus a snug, now the servery. This room has a quarry-tiled floor, dado panelling and scrubbed benches. The metal grilles in the windows were once a common feature but are now rarely seen. The cupboards in the servery are old but the shelving is relatively recent. A hole was cut between the bar and former snug to create a small counter and newer rooms have been created from expansion into adjacent buildings, including the former general store. Care and flair has gone into the design so that the additions look old and have appealing, traditional furniture. The piano room has no piano, the pool room has no pool table and there is a Norfolk Twister game hanging from the ceiling.
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This Pub serves 2 changing beers (Pintail and Wherry at visit Feb 2024) and 0 regular beers.
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