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The Middle House, Mayfield
Mayfield
TN20 6AB
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Reviews of The Middle House (Average Rating: 6 of 10) see review guidelines
Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Middle House
A genuine and very attractive Elizabethan building (understandably Grade I listed) in the centre of the historic High Street. The front entrance is mainly for the hotel part, with access to the L-shaped bar being from the side (and coincident with the car park access so care is needed). As traditional as you would expect inside, with Long Man Best Bitter (£5.00) and Tribute available from the various handpumps on each part of the counter.
On 11th September 2023
- rating: 6
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. Wittenden left this review about The Middle House
An imposing Elizabethan half timbered house in an attractive, well healed Sussex village. I’m not very clear about the history of this pub, but it clearly was a building of some importance:there are carvings attributed to Grinling Gibbons, and a seriously large fireplace. The ground floor roughly divides into two areas-a bar to one’s left, and a formal restaurant to the right.
We sat in the bar on a later February Wednesday lunchtime, busy with a largely mature clientel of business people, pensioners and ladies who lunch. An efficient , businesslike atmosphere, the fixtures and fittings well-loved rather than smart:odd, given the constituency of the local trade. I cannot comment on the restaurant area.
The food offering makes use of local produce, and seemed fairly imaginative:the beer perhaps less so. Alongside the obligatory Harvey’s Sussex Best Bitter and Sharp’s Doombar was what I at first thought was St Austell’s Tribute. On closer examination I was delighted to find that it was in fact Proper Job,grapefruit and marmalade, a proper grown up beer.
Outside at the back is a decent , family friendly garden, unoccupied save for the lonely smoker at this time of year.
On 8th April 2012
- no rating submitted
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Steve C left this review about The Middle House
The hanging sign outside the Middle House boasts that it is a sixteenth century Inn and it sits quite well in the ‘historic’ village of Mayfield. Located in the centre of the high street it was busy with tourists and a splattering of locals during my visit on Monday afternoon. The bar is L shaped with a plasma screen that was off around to the left and a log fire to the right. The bar has a standard draught selection alongside Asahi and Thatcher’s Gold cider. There are also three hand pumps that were drawing W J King’s King’s Old Ale, Harveys Best and Tribute. To the right of the bar area there is a lounge and restaurant area that I did not visit other than to use the toilet. I did have a look at the menu and the description of the mains sounded good, but they were anything but cheap. Children are welcome and I spied a couple of high chairs in the corner.
At the rear of the pub there is a car park and a good sized grass covered beer garden with a children’s play area at the far end.
This inn is nice enough, but I wouldn’t want to stay for an extended period as it is expensive and a little dull.
On 11th January 2012
- rating: 6
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Pub Details
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- Accommodation : Yes last updated 12 September 2022 by paulof horsham
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 11 January 2012 by hondo .
- Car Park : Yes last updated 11 January 2012 by hondo .
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 12 September 2022 by paulof horsham
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 11 January 2012 by hondo .
- Micropub : No last updated 12 September 2022 by paulof horsham
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 11 January 2012 by hondo .
