The Henry Peacock, Harrogate

Converted into retail and residential use.

Large pub next to Starbeck station and level crossing, one large bar with a more elegant room to the back. The first thing that strikes the visitor is the mauve painted anaglypta wallpaper, along with the floral carpet I felt quite queasy, although that might have been the prospect of the choice of beer on offer. John Smiths cask plus a wide choice of the usual kegs. There is a pool table at one end of the bar and a dart board with a mass of trophies lurking behind the bar in a strange open alcove; this is obviously the result of some ill conceived wall removals over the years in misguided attempts to modernise a victorian pub. Although I visited on a warm September day, the radiators were on although the customers weren't OAPs they were a bit eccentric and down at heel looking rather like the pub itself.