Cool Pub Conversion

Here’s a property I came across the other day – a quirky pub conversion in Brighton.

The upside, obviously, is that staying in can become the new going out. When time is called, you just stumble up the stairs and pour yourself into bed.

The downside, though, is that the exterior still looks like a pub so there’s always the prospect of drunken idiots banging on the door at 2am demanding pints of absinthe and pork scratchings.

There are some nice period details here, including the original double doors from the pub, and the whole thing has been very well done.

So while  I’m sad to see a good old Victorian boozer shut down, I’ll happily raise a glass to the current owners for making a fine job of a building that’s been variously used as a pub, a bookshop and a corkscrew factory.

Cubbit & West (Tel: 0843 3635 462)

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