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YORKSHIRE (WEST) - Norwood Green, Old White Beare

National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors Part Two

Norwood Green, Norwood Green, HX3 8QG

Tel: 01274 676645

Draught Beer & Cider: Taylors real ales

Listed Status: Grade II

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The ancient snug here is surely one of the best old pub rooms to be found anywhere. 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; North Star, Steventon, Oxfordshire; Kings Head, Laxfield, Suffolk; Bell & Cross, Holy Cross, Worcestershire; and Red Lion, Llansannan, North West Wales.

With its high-backed settles, old stone fireplace and low-beamed ceiling, and divided-off by matchboard partitions (partly curving and partly top-glazed for borrowed light) it is a little gem - set inside a country ‘venue’ pub which, though thoroughly pleasant, has otherwise undergone its share of recent change and has few old fittings. As well as its expansion for dining, the pub has lost one of its former three drinking rooms, with new toilets replacing the old back tap room, and the front bar has been considerably modified. (The counter, for instance, is less than ten years old).