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The Bank House (JD Wetherspoon), Cheltenham
Cheltenham
GL50 3JL
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J D WetherspoonReviews (Current Rating Average: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Helen Iwanczuk left this review about The Bank House (JD Wetherspoon)
The Bank House was taken off the market in June 2023, and will remain a Wetherspoons pub.
On 2nd September 2023
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Bank House (JD Wetherspoon)
The Bank House was still trading as of yesterday. In fact, it was reasonably busy given it was a Saturday evening and a Wetherspoon's real ale festival was in progress.
Spread over 2 floors, it has some quite nice features including a galleried bar area. Toilets are downstairs and have CCTV filming you whilst you do your business. Clearly they get a bit of trouble in here. In fact, by the time we departed, there were bouncers on the door checking young revellers' ID's.
The usual Wetherspoon's ales were on - Sharp's Doom Bar, Greene King Abbot & Ruddles Best. Whether for the festival or whether they were just additional beers, there was also Morland Old Speckled Hen, Windsor & Eton Guardsman, Silhill Hop Star, Saltaire Triple Choc, Bateman's Spring Breeze & Adnams Extra. Ciders were Weston's Old Rosie & Gwynt y Ddraig Black Dragon.
A lively place that is currently not the only Wetherspoon's in town. Use it while you can.
On 26th March 2023
- rating: 6
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Helen Iwanczuk left this review about The Bank House (JD Wetherspoon)
The Bank House is amongst the list of Wetherspoons branches being sold off. It will remain trading until it is sold.
On 12th November 2022
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Old Boots left this review about The Bank House (JD Wetherspoon)
Larger L shaped spoons, a bit more elegantly decorated than some. The ground floor is on two slightly different levels with separate but conjoined serving areas in each, originally it was two buildings . One side has six pulls, the other seven, unholy trinity plus three interesting local guests at one side, four less local at the other. Lots of dark wood and brass light fittings, mix of regency strip wall paper (what else!) and grey plague. There’s an upstairs area as well reached by stairs at the right of the counter. More salty and earthy salt of the earth customers than the Moon under water.
Toilets in basement and they are CCTV monitored! Token free Camra discount on Thursdays.
On 11th September 2022
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Brainy Pool left this review about The Bank House (JD Wetherspoon)
i’m no great fan of Tim Martin and Spoons but at least they are reliably open and reliably without awkward table service and bookings systems, some much needed normality in these odd times. Decent local ale, sensible bar service system, the question is why are some other pubs so intent on over complicating this process? The usual Spoons characters were in here, and the layout standard but with extra partitions up between tables.
On 7th August 2020
- rating: 6
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Bank House (JD Wetherspoon)
You enter the pub on the left hand side through a set of double doors into a front lounge area, which was wallpapered. The bar was dark oak with a granite top and ran along the middle of the pub, on the left hand side. Along past the bar area, there is a raised seating area, with a fairly drab looking feature wallpapered wall, which was a brown striped paper. The main highlight on our visit was the mirrored stairwell, which lead up to the first floor, which contained some decent sections of seating areas. The upstairs section with a balcony was a lot more elaborate in décor compared to the downstairs, especially with the collection of various sized gilt framed mirrors dotted around the walls and carpeted throughout. There was also a further bar up here, but unfortunately it was back downstairs if you wanted cask ale.
Two banks of six pumps on our visit, which were predominantly from Salopian on this visit, so we settled with Salopian Lemon Dream.
On 2nd March 2018
- rating: 7
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hondo . left this review about The Bank House (JD Wetherspoon)
2 floor spoons with quite a plain interior.
On 13th March 2017
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Aqualung . left this review about The Bank House (JD Wetherspoon)
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.
On 25th October 2016
- rating: 7
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Oggwyn Great left this review about The Bank House (JD Wetherspoon)
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 .
On 17th October 2015
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Bank House (JD Wetherspoon)
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).
On 13th September 2014
- rating: 6
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