Wharf

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Leicestershire - Hinckley

Two star - A pub interior of outstanding national historic interest

Listed Status: Not listed

318 Coventry Road
Hinckley
LE10 0NQ

Tel: 07815 095442

Email: wharfinn@hotmail.co.uk

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/wharfinn

Real Ale: Yes

Real Cider: Yes

Nearby Station: Hinckley (Leics)

Station Distance: 1650m

Public Transport: Near Railway Station (Hinckley) and Bus Stop

Bus: Yes

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Another 1930s Tudor-style pub which has suffered relatively little at the hands of the modernisers. All three small rooms at the front retain their brick and wood surround fireplaces (now covered by radiators) but the middle one has lost a partition, opening it up to the servery area. This room also has settle-like seating created by a panelled partition. The servery in the centre of the pub has its original bar counter whilst the passageway alongside, with fielded panelling to picture-frame height, is a popular drinking area. In the larger lounge at the back, the brick fireplace and fixed seating are unaltered but not so the bar counter where post-war tinkering is in evidence. A door on the left-hand side of the pub once led to an off-sales but now accesses a kitchen.
1930s pub with mock Tudor exterior retaining a close to original floor plan and many original fittings. At the front are three small rooms but the middle one appears to have lost a partition making it open onto the servery area. All three rooms still retain their 1930s brick and wood surround fireplaces now covered by radiators. The room on the right has original fixed seating on two sides; the room in the middle has settle like seating created by a panelled partition; and the left room has a panelled dado, service from a hatch and is home to a Leicestershire Cheese Skittle table which originally came from another pub. In the centre of the pub the servery retains an original bar counter and the passageway alongside it with fielded panelling to picture frame height is a popular drinking area.

At the rear the larger lounge retains a tall 1930s brick fireplace and fixed seating around the room but the bar counter has seen some changes (possibly changed from a hatch?) - bits of 1950s ribbed hardboard indicate changes around the late 50s. On the left side of the pub there is a door which originally led to the off sales, now appears to be a kitchen. The name comes from the small arm of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch canal that runs to the back of the pub.

Windows have been replaced.
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