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With its surviving original late Victorian four roomed interior of public bar, and select room at the front plus tap room and lounge at the back all off a central corridor. It is one of only four pubs in the Gateshead council area to be included in CAMRA's Pub Interiors of Special Historic Interest booklet for the North East. Also note the boarded ceilings, etched glass door windows, and old photographs of the pub. A must visit for all those interested in pub architecture. Leek club, Play-Your-Cards-Right, darts, and pool.
Historic Interest
Page 27 NERI 2006: "Retains its traditional plan of four rooms and a corridor with only minor changes. On entry one is confronted in the lobby by doors with etched glass saying 'Bar' (right) and 'Select Rooms': this latter term embraces with 'Select Room' (front), 'Tap Room' (rear) and at the 'Lounge' (rear right). The Public Bar has a partly old bar-back but a fairly modern counter front. Boarded ceilings in the public bar and select room. One fireplace is interwar (select room) but the others are new. Inside gents added in the 1960s. Small modern counter added in the lounge".
Two star - A pub interior of very special national historic interest
Listed status: Not listed
The White Swan retains its traditional plan of four rooms and a corridor with only minor changes. On entry you are confronted in the lobby by doors with etched glass saying 'Bar' (right) and 'Sitting Rooms': this latter term embraces the 'Select Room'itself (front), 'Tap Room' (rear) and 'Lounge' (rear right). The Public Bar has a partly old bar-back but the bar counter itself dates from the 1980’s and has an even more recent counter top. The bar also has some original bench seating, and boarded ceilings feature in the hallway, public bar and select room. Benched seating also features in the Lounge and Select Room but it has been reupholstered in a modern style. One fireplace is inter-war (select room) but the others are new. Small modern counter added in the lounge. Serving hatch in the passageway.
This Pub serves 2 changing beers and 0 regular beers.
White Swan, Greenside
Source: National