Hanover Arms

Opened in 1940, the Hanover was a high-quality new-build by John Smith’s Tadcaster Brewery, designed by their company architect Bertram Wilson in the style of a spacious Jacobean country house. The quality of the original scheme can still be appreciated in the décor and fittings of the excellent foyer-lounge (‘Blue Room’) and in the toilets, both sets of which are impressively authentic and intact. Little else, though, has escaped a degree of post-war re-vamping and the merging of the tap room and old off-sales is as recent as 2005.