Olde Globe Inn, Berrynarbor

This village pub is said to date from 1675 and now has expanded into three cottages and six rooms. The star of the show is the front, right-hand room – the Kitchen Bar – at the entrance and this no doubt formed the original core in the days when there would have been no bar counter and beer was fetched from the cellar. It has fixed settle-like seating around the fireplace - one acting as a draught protector by the front door. The floor is an ancient screeded one, there are some old seating attached to the dado and an old bench.

Behind this comes the Village Bar with the servery to the left (with touches of decorative half-timbering) and which also faces directly into a space which was clearly once a separate room: this another screeded floor, a couple of settles and three barrel tables. To the left is a former domestic room which is a now a restaurant: it has a quarry-tile floor and two curved high-backed settles have been introduced.

No-one can miss the distinctive character of the Globe. The exterior prepares one for this with its textured rendering, something that is almost overpowering within! This must surely be from a thorough makeover round in or around the 1960s such things were in vogue. A subsequent change is revealed in an old photograph in the pub looking back up the Village Bar: this round-arched window at the rear has been removed to create an opening the pool room and the right-hand wall has been opened out to what would have been a corridor: this may have been carried out around 1988 when the counter top was replaced. Beyond the pool room is the function room including a skittle alley.