England’s greatest dramatist is honoured in quite a few pub names. This house was built only 20 years after Shakespeare’s death, if we accept the...

The oldest pub in Bristol has been licensed since 1606. The tall gabled section is the original inn. Houses on either side were damaged in...

This historic pub stands on the site of the gatehouse of St James Priory. Its vaulted cellars apparently date to the medieval period. The inn...

This old coaching inn has hidden charms. From the front it looks late Georgian, but that was a smart façade pasted over an older building....

This pub is housed in a former Georgian coaching inn, York House, later the Royal York Hotel. Victoria stayed there as a princess. The notice...

This house is older than it looks. 14 and 15 Westgate Street next door were once one house, given a grand face-lift around 1720. But...

This gabled front conjures up something of pre-Georgian Bath. According to the credible date carved on it, The Saracen’s Head was built in 1713 -...

Here’s the proof that Gloucester flourished in Elizabethan times. This fine town house would have been built for a prosperous merchant, living above his shop....

Few public houses have a history as long as this one. The present building dates from the 17th century, but there was an inn on...

This pub’s overhanging upper floor gives away its age. Its sturdy timber frame has seen out the centuries. The core of it was built in...