This Pub is Permanently Closed
Converted 24/4/2010 to Spice Tower restaurant. Closed c.1/12/2009. Planning Application DC/044855 | Retention of a single storey flat roof extension, erection of balustrading to roof and installation of personnel door at first floor to form fire exit and formation of steps. Granted 13/9/2010.
History: Was a low-ceilinged roadside inn, dating from the 1800s, retaining its air of history and rusticity. Two large rooms plus an intimate snug at front and lounge to rear. Two cask ales were normally available. In the 1990s it sold cask Boddingtons Bitter, Bass, Websters Green Label, and Courage Directors.
Historic Interest
In 1949 it became a Wilsons Brewery house following the merger with Walker & Homfray's Brewery, originally it was a Showell's Brewery house.
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