The Village Inn, Stroud

This is a brewpub, with the Nailsworth brewery downstairs, which supplies the pumps upstairs. The beer range and quality produced are excellent. It's a slightly unusual place upon entering as the interior appears to be very new but in a deliberately old-fashioned way; the small of new wood is almost overpowering. There's been an effort to make the inside late-1800's in character, lots of little alcoves, nooks and crannies, which is great and fits in well with the shell of the building, which must be 150 years old at least. I guess it needs to bed in a bit. The trio of female hostesses were friendly and kept pace with our busload of beer tourists well. All in all, a nice place, with very local beer(!) and I'd recommend it straight away. Would expect it to improve further as the interior settles in.