Drewe Arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 11.9 " N , 3 ° 47 ′ 29.5" W.
The Drewe Arms is a pub on the north side of The Square in Drewsteignton in Devon , which is classified as a Grade II * Listed Building .
It is possible that there was an inn on this site as early as the 16th century. The building that still exists today was built in the 17th century and modernized at the end of the 19th century. The building is a clay corrugated building on a stone base; one of the chimneys was made of granite. The roof is a combination of thatch , corrugated iron and slate. The floor plan is T-shaped, with three rooms in the main wing - the kitchen, the main room and the bar. At the back of the middle room there is a staircase. It seems that the central building was originally an open hall building. The side extensions date from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. They contain storage rooms, cellars and toilets.
The interior was largely renewed in the 19th century, but no further modernization has taken place since then and some of the 17th century woodwork has been preserved. The license for the Drewe Arms dates back to 1890, when it was called “New Inn”. The name was later changed to Druid Arms and to the current name in the 1920s.
On February 22, 1967, the Grade II * inn was placed on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest . As part of the Campaign for Real Ale , it was entered on the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors . In 1919, the Drewe Arms was taken over by Mabel Mudge, who was the landlady for 75 years, and at the time she gave up the inn for reasons of age, she was considered the longest runner in England. The pub was closed in February 2013 because the low margin could no longer generate the high operating costs, but new owners reopened it in the same year.
Web links
- Aunt Mabel of the Drewe Arms, Drewsteignton. on yeosociety.com
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c Drewe Arms, Drewsteignton [1306339] ( English ) In: National Heritage List for England . Historic England . Retrieved September 6, 2016.
- ^ Anthony Poulton-Smith: South Devon Place Names . Amberley Publishing Limited, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4456-3098-4 , Drewsteignton (English, books.google.de ).
- ↑ Geoff Brandwood: Britain's best real heritage pubs . CAMRA, St. Albans 2013, ISBN 978-1-85249-304-2 , pp. 34 .
- ↑ Regulars raise their pints to Auntie Mabel: FOOD & DRINK (English) . In: The Independent , February 4, 1995. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
- ^ Opinion: Can our locals survive the costly terms imposed by the giant pub companies? (English) . In: Express & Echo , August 12, 2013. Archived from the original on September 14, 2016. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.
- ↑ Long-serving village pub ready to re-open (English) . In: Western Morning News , September 12, 2013. Archived from the original on September 14, 2016 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved August 16, 2016.
