Converted from 5/5/2019 and well into 2020 to be a Shisha bar. Closed 4/7/2011. Planning Application 110905/FO/2015/S1 | Change of use and subdivision of public house (Class A4) to two hot food take-aways (Class A5), erection of front single-storey extension with terrace area above, installation of two flues to the rear, single-storey detached outbuilding and a gated access from Claremont Road. Granted 4/5/2016. History: was a basic, and at times, very lively keg boozer. Former Hardy's Crown Brewery house which became a Bass pub. CAMRA magazine "What's Doing" described it thus in the March 1978 edition - '"...was a Hardys house and still bears the name in a roof line mosiac. The pub has a traditional appearance but the inside, which is smaller than the outside appearance would suggest,, has a bright, plain vault which is wedge-shaped, a central bar with lobby, and a best room".