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The County Hotel, Hexham

Priestpopple
Hexham
NE46 1PS

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Blackthorn _ left this review about The County Hotel

A prominent and attractive looking building towards the end of Hexham’s High Street, it’s got plenty of colourful hanging baskets on display and has the appearance of a traditional coaching inn with white painted brickwork along with grey detailing around the windows and doors.

It’s a good size internally and divided in to several different rooms. It’s clearly been refurbished recently and is thus rather contemporary in appearance and in some areas has something of a bling factor with elaborate crystal light fittings. The main bar area had some type of parquet wood flooring, further wood cladding on one of the partition walls and wood cladding along the front of the var counter. The tables too were chunky wooden affairs which might all sound rather rustic, but the freshly plastered ceiling, feature wallpaper on one wall along with a large photograph of the now sadly lost tree at Sycamore Gap, and some wood panelling painted in a gastro-pub green made it feel considerably less so. The rear room which looked to be more geared up for dining had much more painted wood panelling as well as fitted and curved padded bech seating, whilst one of the rooms at the front was a little cosier with a tartan style carpet on the floor. Overall though, whilst not at all unpleasant, it all seemed a little bland and characterless.

Beers on tap were London Pride, Timothy Taylor Landlord and Tyneside Blonde whilst the solitary cider was Thatcher’s Gold which was a bit of a turn-up and much better than the usual dross you get around these parts.

On 26^th July 2024 - rating: 7
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Will Larter left this review about The County Hotel

I agree to a large extent with the previous review, including the beer score. I bought, tasted and scored the beer before reading Quinno's review, and the fact that we both made it NBSS 4 is testament to the quality of the cellarmanship here, not to mention a feather in the cap for the GBG.

On 18^th June 2024 - rating: 7
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Quinno _ left this review about The County Hotel

Pashmina Pauline hotel bar for the local mid-market greyhairs in a plush contemporary style. That said, they were serving booze before midday. The lunchtime menu looked decent value, sandwich and chips for 7 quid. Three cask, Pride, TTL and Hadrian Tyneside Blonde, the latter of which was exceptionally good given the order time of 11.40am (NBSS 4) so no complaints in terms of GBG inclusion. You won’t go mad for the place but it put on a better show of beer than a number of other places in town.

On 15^th February 2024 - rating: 7
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