Carpenters Arms

The Carpenters Arms has probably more small rooms that any other pub in Wales. This stone building was originally a bar and carpenter’s shop, later a blacksmith’s. The original bar was the flagstone-floored room just inside the main door with its huge settle held in place by an iron stay fixed to the ceiling, and which creates a passage into the pub. The bar counter was added in the 1960s replacing the original service hatch. The rear 'Smithy Bar' was created out of a blacksmiths shop in the 1960s and has a counter formed of church furniture, a flagstone floor and a Victorian-style fireplace. To the right of the original bar the former cellar at a lower level has been made into another small bar. The room to the far right has been brought into pub use in recent years. Two rooms to the left of the front door were, and still do look like, domestic rooms - the far one has a 1920s Tudor stone fireplace. A wonderful pub with the only downside being the amount of 1960s Artex on the walls!