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Lollards Pit, Norwich
Norwich
NR1 1SZ
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Old Boots left this review about Lollards Pit
Close to the river on Riverside, a dun coloured old looking Greene King pub with a bit of Brewers Tudor on the exterior, inside the look continues with old beams, some possibly original and in situ. Not sure of the original layout but now there’s a front area, a seating area beyond and a room off to the left with a pool table, there’s a big back garden too. The counter is an L with a T-bar, a Cruzcampo solo and six pulls, four of which were in use. A mediocre Wherry, Panther Beast of the East, an East Yorkshire interloper from Great Newsome and an own badged 3.6%, too strong for Greene King IPA nowadays so I don’t know its origin. There’s a fair number of ciders mostly from Lilley’s and baps. Industrial carpet, the odd print and a couple of cabinets of bottles and jars of interest form the decor. A couple of machines lurk at the back and to the right on entering is a laser display screen of the beers and ciders available. A few down market sweary punters in on my visit.
On 21st April 2024
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Steve of N21 left this review about Lollards Pit
On the other side of Bishop Bridge to the Red Lion, the Lollards Pit was one of the first pubs in Norwich to be built outside the city walls, and was built on the site of a place of execution for heretics known as Lollards Pit, hence the current name.
Internally it’s largely one room around the long L shaped bar, but there is a smaller area beyond housing a pool table and then a nice outside secluded courtyard garden with plenty of covered seating areas accessed from this games room.
The decor is pleasant enough with exposed brick to the bar front and exposed beams on both ceil and walls.
I had chosen to duck the Red Lion to take a look at this one and fortunately it did not disappoint for me when approaching the bar, in fact almost the opposite. All six ale pumps were in use and alongside a token interloper from Yorkshire ( Rudgate Battleaxe Bitter) they were all from Norfolk breweries. These were Woodforde Wherry, Lollards Mumbler IPA ( brewed for the pub by the North Norfolk Brewery), Humpty Dumpty Brewery Little Sharpie, Norfolk Brewhouse Skidaddler Milk Stout and Panther Brewery Spring Pale Ale. Between us we tried the Humpty Dumpty, Norfolk Brewhouse and the Panther ales and they were all in fine condition.
On 16th April 2023
- rating: 7
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Quinno _ left this review about Lollards Pit
Catches the eye with its ‘little and large’ pitched roofing. Inside is a nice 90s throwback refurb. Quite pleasant actually with sodium lights, mid-brown undressed brick walls and some inset cupboards. All came crashing down at the bar though; just the two ales, a pretty naff Deuchars (NBSS 2) and another so dull I forgot to record it, served up by perfunctory staff. There were also some ciders. Pretty empty on late Saturday evening and perhaps it wasn’t hard to see why. Dumped my beer early and headed-off. Not quite the pits, but certainly not a GBG pub (but in it is…).
Visited early August.
On 12th September 2021
- rating: 6
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Lollards Pit
This was my last stop in Norwich, before heading to the train station. I'd passed it many times before, but this time decided to visit.
Whilst my stay was very brief and I don't recall too much about the interior, the pub and the range of beers was better than I had expected.
The 2 regular beers are Woodforde's Wherry & Nelson's Revenge. Bure Gold from Woodforde's was also on, along with Mr Winter's Twin Parallel & Moon Gazer Jigfoot. There were also 4 ciders - Lilley's Apple & Blackberry Cider, Mango Cider & Red Rabbit & Norfolk Raider Gator 24.
Certainly a pub I will not pass by next time I'm in Norwich.
On 18th September 2020
- rating: 7
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about Lollards Pit
Re-opened and renamed from the Bridge House, with a number of old features retained but otherwise over-refurbished at some stage to leave a semi-modern look. Four local(ish) beers on handpump: Wolf Edith Cavell and Golden Jackal (£3.00), plus Woodforde's Sundew and Nelson's Revenge. A bit mixed, but certainly worth another visit once things have settled in a bit. (NB - Review dates from August 2012.)
On 10th March 2013
- rating: 6
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Real Ale Ray left this review about Lollards Pit
Four good local ales served here, two from Woodfordes and two from Wolf Brewery. This is a comfortable pub with a chatty landlord. The Wolf Golden Jackal was spot on.
On 4th November 2012
- rating: 7
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Alan Winfield left this review about The Bridge House
The Bridge House has reopened and is now called Lollards Pit.
Once inside the bar is to the left,the main room looked a bit dark,there was a slope down to a room which had a pool table in it.
There were six pumps on the bar with two in use,these had Woodforde's Wherry and Sunset on.
I did'nt get to try a drink in here,the landlord said the pub opens properly next week and he was'nt yet ready to serve me,this was a bit dissapointing.
Attempted Visit 30/6/2012
On 1st July 2012
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