The Bank House (JD Wetherspoon), Cheltenham

2 floor spoons with quite a plain interior.

I made the schoolboy error of coming to Cheltenham without checking if there was racing on so as well as the normal Saturday shoppers and others there was a fair contingent of inbred horsey types. As it has been converted into two floors (I didn't look upstairs) there is little evidence inside of it having been a bank. The downstairs bar has a set of three hand pumps and a set of six. The three had the JDW Trio Of Doom and the six one unused and five festival ales. I went for the Arundel Coffee Milk Stout (£2.35 festival price) which was in good nick. I would have appreciated this one more on a quieter day but it looked like it's probably OK.

Fairly standard JDW with a Mezzanine floor , usual mix of spoons customers , decent selection of local ales , Cheltenham Premium SPA , North Cotswold Hung Drawn and Portered and Prescot Chequered flag all in good nick , service was pretty good as well .

Converted from two adjoining buildings, this 'spoons features a large, dark main bar with six handpumps. There is also a mezzanine and a small first-floor bar to the side with some window tables with three more taps. Reasonable selection of real ales, including the Cheltenham SPA Porter (keenly priced at £2.20).

An imaginative approach to the selection of real ales, makes this an attractive wetherspoons.