one of ... Britain's Real Heritage Pubs
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This pubs is taken from the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors, CAMRA’s pioneering effort to identify and help protect the most important historic pub interiors in the country | ||||||
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TYNE AND WEAR - Gateshead, Central National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors Part Two Half Moon Lane, Gateshead, NE8 2AN Tel: 0191 478 2543 Public Transport: Metro: Gateshead Listed Status: Grade II A four-storey wedge-shaped, probably mid-Victorian building, refitted c.1900. Retains a superb intact 'Buffet Bar' with U-shaped carved original bar counter, very good original decorative carved bar back, original fixed seating, half panelling, etched glass in the doors, fine ceiling, and plasterwork frieze with figures of putti. The projection behind the bar-back used to house a dumb waiter running the full height of the building. Elsewhere there is original half-height panelling on the staircase in the hallway. In the public bar some full-height fielded panelling and a partly old bar counter. It is said that there used to be drinking cubicles in this area: various alterations were made here in the 1950s . The sharp angle of the building creates an interestingly shaped Pool Room beyond the Buffet Bar, with seating probably of the 1950s. The Buffet Bar is only open in the afternoon or by arrangement. Recently changed hands and undergoing sympathetic alterations. |
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