St Matthews Hall (JD Wetherspoon), Walsall

A beaut of a JDW - particularly from the front, where doric columns gleam in immaculate white paint. Inside, its anti tardis but does stretch across a higher room, a lower room and then around the corner a lovely looking "library" room. Beers - including award winning Abbot - all under £3 and perfectly kept. Breakfast delivered before I'd knocked the top of it and unusually for a JDW, very efficient floor staff keeping everything immaculate within. As good as 'spoons get.

Rather odd shaped spoons in a venerable building or two but possibly originally separate parts, a brick part at the back and a stuccoed portico on the side. The counter is on a raised level in a greenhouse affair added to the front of the brick building. There’s tall seating in front of it and lower tables and chairs on the ground level. Behind in the original building is an oblong room decorated as a library and furnished with more low tables and chairs. Usual spoons set up of five plus five hand pumps topped and tailed with keg founts. Toilets upstairs of course in the part with the fancier exterior, but not a trip to Narnia away. Large outdoor seating area at the front next to the greenhouse. Beer quality ok and it’s GBG 2023 listed.