Royal Oak, Attleborough, Nuneaton

Old-fashioned village-style boozer, with a plain bar along the frontage (with a small alcove) and a larger, slightly higher lounge / dining room at the back, although this was not in use when I called in. The two are separated by the central servery, with a counter at the front and a hatch at the back. A beer garden is also advertised. Disappointingly, just Bass (£3.30) was available from a total of four handpumps, but at least that was in reasonable shape.

A little, detached Victorian GBG pub, with patio area at the front and deceptively nice garden at the back. Sadly, the exterior of the pub has been rendered in cream and has modern, unsympathetic windows, but hey, keeps you warmer in winter. The pub has a bar room at the front and a the passage that leads to the raised lounge area appears to have once been a snug (maybe an outdoor later. The raised lounge is, as Will states, served by a hatch that makes you feel like Zeus looking-down from Olympus at the people in the bar! The bar has a few mounted footy shirts and is in cream and red. The lounge is in the traditional cream and wood walls and ceiling and has red bench seats. There are a few bottles and general bits of ephemera dotted about and a few general pictures on the walls. There was a small fireplace and an incongruous TV with golf on, as wellas there being no music. The service was very friendly and the clientele was leaning to the mature. Beer; usual tap stuff with GK IPA, Abbot, Spekky Hen, Tim Taylor (also ran dry!) and a good pint of Bass. A reall nice pub, with a more traditional interior than exterior. Nip in, you wont regret it.