The White Hart Hotel (JD Wetherspoon), Okehampton

Spoons hotel, a 2015 opener. Odd layout inside, a long and very narrow bar with almost no seating but there are rooms off both sides and behind. Quasi-rustic decor, fairly tasteful. Spectator sport was a gaggle of old ladies staring out of the window waiting for a bride to appear from the building (registry office?) opposite. Three guest cask, the beer I ordered wasn't the beer I got and was pretty long pour (NBSS 2). Could and should be better.

Although this old hotel is set on the main road through Okehampton it extends back quite a way down George Street. I'm not sure how much JDW have changed things since the previous 2011 review but I found it to be a fairly typical older JDW hotel with a rambling layout based on a long corridor with a bar counter to the left hand side. There are various areas set off this long corridor where most of the customers seemed to be in for food. There was no sign of a daytime brigade. I noticed six hand pumps on the bar which had the JDW Trio Of Doom, Exmoor Exiles Whakatu, Purple Moose Madog's Ale and Hydes Kansas Avenue Lonesome Duck. Afterwards I noticed six more right at the end of the bar which had the two GK beers and four ciders. I went for the Hydes beer (£2.29) which was in excellent nick. I thought this was a good Spoons but I did notice that Fish Friday here was an expensive £8.99. That's probably not surprising given the location.

Official site of White Hart Hotel (JD Wetherspoon) - www.jdwetherspoon.com

Official site of White Hart Hotel (JD Wetherspoon) - www.jdwetherspoon.com