Coach & Horses

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The Coach & Horses was built in 1937 and has hardly been altered since. For Thirties planning to survive so completely makes this a true national rarity. As an 'improved' pub of its time, it has four separate rooms including a ‘refreshment room’. The highlight is the sashed screenwork in all four bars with one room retaining the rising lower screens – very rare. Statutorily listed in 2010 following a successful application by CAMRA. In 2020 it was purchased by enlightened new owners who have carried out an exemplary refurbishment.

The door on the far left of the building originally lead to the off sales, a narrow space with colourful tiling on both walls and it still retains the bell push. Enter by the main left hand corner doors, which lead to the spacious lobby bar. The bar counter fronts in three of the bars had been covered by fresh panels in the 1970s and in 2020 these were removed to reveal the original 1937 ones. Off the lobby bar the gents’ and ladies’ toilets retains their original interwar floor tiling and dado wall tiling,

To the left is what was originally called the refreshment room and now named the whisky bar. Here the counter screens are intact with four rising lower sections, however the pulley system was in poor condition but following restoration the screens are now back in working order. There are bell pushes around the room. To the right of the lobby bar is the lounge bar (was the smoke room) where the four upper panels of the sash screens remain; the 1930s fixed seating has been carefully restored; and there are bell pushes around the room.

The tap room (originally the public bar) has its own entrance with a lobby that has colourful interwar tiling to two-thirds height. The tap room retains the four upper panels of the sash screens; original fixed seating has been restored; and high up above the fireplace is a Andy Capp mural from the 1970s. The gents’ toilet here is intact with its two large Shanks urinals; also the ladies' retains the original white and dark green floor tiles and interwar dado wall tiling. The bar back for all the bars has three distinct sections, all with a row of drawers below the main shelf.

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