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The Old Bank House, Tamworth
Tamworth
B79 7NB
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Strongers . left this review about The Old Bank House
The Old Bank House has a central vestibule that houses a small table and a grandfather clock. To the front left is a small room with a fireplace, armchairs and sofas and opposite to the front right is a slightly larger room with another fireplace, armchairs at the front and sofas the rear. The small bar area is found in the left rear where the counter up the left faces some seating to the right. Lots of German lagers were available and the five hand pumps were drawing Mad Brewer’s Toffanilla, Salopian’s Trip Wire, Hawkshead’s Rookies Return, Shiny’s Science Makes Me Feel Like Dancing and Mallinson’s EIRA. Out the back is a small yard of the smokers. No television was spotted, but there was some low background music playing. The service was welcoming and the Trip Wire was good so I’d return for another beer and ham roll.
On 20th September 2024
- rating: 8
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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Old Bank House
Easily missed,there is no significant pub signage and from the outside it looks much like a solicitors office in gothic style near the castle.Inside there are two front rooms with high ceilings,cornicing and some exposed old brickwork with sofas,chesterfields and some traditional tables by way of furniture.Beyond a vestibule is the small bar room,servery on the left,bench seating with brittania tables opposite,while a doorway leads to the beer garden.
There was a friendly welcome from locals and bar staff and the chalk board showed a choice on my visit of Brew York Make it Centennial (NBSS 4),Bristol Beer Factory Out Front,Black Iris Diamond Eyes,Two by Two Amarillo Motueka Sabro and Blue Bee Park Hill Porter (strong,NBSS 4).A fine selection in good nick which does make me wonder why it's not in the GBG.
A must visit on any Tamworth Crawl,along with the Tamworth Tap,Sir Robert Peel and Kings Ditch .There is a Wednesday quiz and I will most certainly visit this fine ale house again.
On 23rd August 2024
- rating: 8
[User has posted 2936 recommendations about 2936 pubs]
Old Boots left this review about The Old Bank House
Multi room pub housed in a former bank associated with Sir Robert Peel, a very impressive building opposite the castle. It’s double fronted with a sitting room either side of the entrance corridor, both rooms are furnished in vaguely drawing room style with leather sofas and armchairs, a long case clock but also with Britannia tables. Towards the back is the serving bar, running lengthways down one side it has five shiny pulls with beers today from Nightjar, Pomona Island, Bristol Beer Factory, Green Duck and Brew York, each with a jamjar in front to indicate what you’re getting. In between is a ABK duo tap, ABK and Veltins ceramic founts and a cider on a tall solo. The toilets are upstairs and there’s a rear garden.
On 26th May 2024
- no rating submitted
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Will Larter left this review about The Old Bank House
A lovely building which I've been meaning to visit since it became a pub over two years ago, but somehow I never visited Tamworth when it was open until now. Inside it is looking less like a bank (which it was) than a house that has been turned into a museum/gallery, with furniture that surely must be reproduction rather than original, but very nice for all that, and modern art on the walls. The bar is in a back room and had five hand pumps on the go at the time of my visit. As with my visit to the Sheriff of Tamworth, there were no beers below 5% abv, except for a milk stout - how does a beer with the word "stout" in the name come to be the weakest beer on a bar? I went for Charnwood brewery's Steam Train 4.5%, which was in very good condition (NBSS 3.5) and £4.40 a pint. I looked around for somewhere comfortable, but the whole ground floor was filled with heavy metal music from the ubiquitous loudspeakers. This is a building and rooms that surely deserve a bit of peace and quiet to enhance the ambience and facilitate our enjoyment of the beers. But no, we have to have our ears assailed by loud music so that we know that we really are bloody well enjoying ourselves. Three points taken off the score for raising my blood pressure.
On 17th October 2023
- rating: 4
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