Fordwich Arms

Attractively set beside the Great Stour river, this is a fine, well-designed 1930s pub, faced with narrow red bricks and having a symmetrical frontage facing the Fordwich’s old town hall. Curiously the public rooms are smaller than one would expect for a pub of this size. The public bar is long and narrow and runs parallel to the street. The two doors into it surely indicate that once it had a partition. The servery has a panelled counter and simple back-fitting. At the rear left is a dining room with high-quality panelling. A corridor from the public bar to the river terrace has very low original panelling. Note the old brass penny-in-the-slot devices in both the gents’ and ladies' toilets. Three original fireplaces.