This website is currently in beta. If you wish to go back to the current site please click here. To provide feedback or find out more about this site, please click here.
A popular olde worlde pub on two levels, a timber building in the Old Town of Hastings with friendly staff. Main entrance is up a side alley to the right.
Two star - A pub interior of very special national historic interest
Listed status: II
Early 17th century three-storey building which until the 1950s operated as a boot and shoe shop on the ground floor. It was restored and a mock Tudor frontage added in 1956 and opened as a pub on various levels. It has half timbered walls, a wealth of beams and timbers, and old brick fireplaces.
Main bar is on the first floor with access via a staircase from the small front bar or walk up the lane on the right-hand side of the building and enter by the door half way up. It has a bar counter with a linenfold front from the 1950s and the bar back shelves might well be 1950s. Bare wood floor throughout first floor. Up a further six steps is another small room / area and further on the left (down three steps) is a pool room where the fittings are very modern.
The small ground floor bar has a flagstone floor and another linenfold bar counter from 1956 and bar back shelves might be 1950s, old brick fireplace inglenook-style. However, the bar counter was originally on the right and moved across so that the staircase to the first floor could be added.
Olde Pumphouse, Hastings