one of ... Britain's Real Heritage Pubs
This pub 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. | |||||||
OXFORDSHIRE - Steventon, North Star National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors Part One Stocks Lane, Steventon, OX13 6SG Tel: Opening Hours: Closed Mon to Thu lunchtimes; Opens at 5 (3 Fri, 12 Sat, Sun & B Hol Mon) Draught Beer & Cider: Real Ales including local beers Listed Status: Grade II A thatched, whitened pub which is of the truly great country classics which is named after an 1837 GWR locomotive, not the heavenley body - Jack changed the pub sign as he liked trains! A timber porch with some fixed seating - now the smoking shelter! - leads into the core of the pub, a room with three settles in the centre focusing on the fireplace - an extraordinary characterful survival. There are only a handful of similar rooms or snugs formed of two or more high backed settles left in the whole of the UK. They can be found at the following Britain's Real Heritage Pubs – the Holly Bush, Mackeney, Derbyshire; Malt Shovel, Spondon, Derbyshire; Five Mile House, Duntisbourne Abbots, Gloucestershire; Green Dragon, Flaunden, Hertfordshire; Red Lion, Kenninghall, Norfolk; Kings Head, Laxfield, Suffolk; Bell & Cross, Holy Cross, Worcestershire; Old White Beare, Norwood Green, West Yorkshire; and Red Lion, Llansannan, North West Wales.
Ironwork on the settles used to carry curtains for greater privacy and warmth. Quarry tile floor - look for the figure '4' to the right of the gap between the settles. There is also one full height short partition. The fire surround looks possibly inter-war or immediate post war (infill looks more 1950s). |
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