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Historic Pub Interiors - Britain's Real Heritage Pubs

Historic Pub Interiors - An Overview

One of their great joys of Britain's pubs is their sheer variety, ranging from simple rural pubs to late-Victorian extravaganzas. CAMRA's Pub Heritage Group is committed to protecting and promoting our historic pub interiors. The Group maintains the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors, a list of those interiors that have remained intact for a long time and/or have features of exceptional historic or architectural importance. The Group also publishes Real Heritage Pub Guides.

Sadly few pub interiors are the same now, or nearly so, as when they were built, and many that have so far survived are pub interiors at risk from being lost. There are many challenges associated with preserving our heritage pubs, but getting pubs statutorily "listed" gives them significant protection from insensitive development, and we seek to work with local authority planners and planning authorities, offering advice and suggestions. We also need help from anyone interested in historic pub interiors to identify more Real Heritage Pubs, and use them so they continue to be viable as pubs.

Here is a more detailed overview of Historic Pub Interiors.

Britain's Real Heritage Pubs - Online Pub Guide

News and Updates

Bush House, Bushmills, County Antrim, Northern Ireland - up for sale at 'offers around £275,000' - see the particulars of sale. If you know of someone who wishes to ensure this Real Heritage Pub continues to remain open can you please ask them to ring the agents McAfee Commercial on 028 7032 9222 NOW to arrange a viewing.

Waterloo, Smethwick, West Midlands is closed, boarded-up and has an asking price of £350,000. If you know of someone who wishes to reopen this Real Heritage Pub with its amazing tiled dining room can you please ask them to ring the owners Calco Pubs Ltd on 0121 784 3016 NOW to arrange a viewing.

Full details of all Britain's Real Heritage pubs currently up for sale

Feature Article

How to Search for a Listed Building.

Want to know if a pub is statutorily listed or what the list says about it? English Heritage recently launched their new website 'National Heritage List For England' and this is now the place to search. Click on 'Location' and then either:
1a. For a village enter the place name in 'Parish' and select from the list of places.
1b. For a large town/city use the "District/Unitary Authority/Borough" box for a menu of local authorities.
2. Then enter the pub name in 'Place/Site Name' and click on 'Search'.
3. If none of these produces a place name then use the 'County' box instead.
If the property is statutory listed it then should appear. Here are more details.