Castle Inn

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Kent - Chiddingstone

One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest

Listed Status: II*

Chiddingstone
Chiddingstone
TN8 7AH

Tel: (01892) 870371

Email: castleinnchidd@gmail.com

Website https://www.thecastleinnchiddingstone.com

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

Real Ale: Yes

Real Cider: Yes

Lunchtime Meals: Yes

Evening Meals: Yes

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Behind the long tile-hung frontage (with central brick bay), lies a timber-framed building perhaps dating from the early seventeenth century. The Castle has an utterly traditional small public bar with a red and black quarry-tiled floor, full-height matchboard-panelled walls, an old brick fireplace and some simple bench seating. The counter could date from interwar times: the routine bar-back shelves are hard to date. The saloon bar accessed from the left-hand side of the building is in three distinct parts. The centre section contains a bar counter and may date from interwar times. To the left is a small seating are including some old benches and to the right down a couple of steps is a tiny alcove called 'the Confessional' with more basic seating. There is a small dining room to the right of the public bar and another at the rear.