UK’s most beautiful Wetherspoons looks ‘like a period drama’ with Tudor ceilings, fire & bathroom so big you’ll get lost
HAVING a beer in beautiful surroundings can make the amber liquid taste even better.
The chain is best known for being a cheap and cheerful place to eat and drink, but can breathe new life into beautiful old buildings.
One Wetherspoons pub in Leek, just outside Stoke, could be the country's most beautiful with Tudor-style features.
The Green Dragon boasts a large modern bar, wooden beams, a high ceiling, comfortable seats and a beer garden.
But, the other side of the pub makes patrons feel like they've stepped back in time to the time of Elizabeth I.
In that part, the ceilings are low, there are old wooden beams that look like they are from 1560s, the time of hit TV shows Wolf Hall and The Tudors.
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A history of the pub on the wall says it was called The Green Dragon in 1693, but was an inn in 1783 called The Angel and then later The Swan With Two Necks.
Bill Yates told StokeonTrentLive said: “I’ve been drinking in this pub since it opened as The Green Dragon again about 20 years ago. It didn’t used to be one pub, the older looking part was the pub and the newer part where the bar and kitchen used to be a sports bar called JDs.
“The Green Dragon is supposed to be the oldest pub in Leek because it’s hundreds of years old. It’s had lots of names during its time such as The Swann, but it was changed back to its original name in the late 1900s.”
Another patron, Dave Lead, said he liked the pizzas and that he drinks at The Green Dragon twice a week as it was a lot cheaper than another pub in town.
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“It’s usually really busy here - you’ve come at quite literally the emptiest I’ve ever seen the place - you can rarely get a seat on a Friday it’s that busy. I’d say there’s usually at least 50 people in here at any one time," he said.
The Sun has listed what we think are the 10 most beautiful Wetherspoons in the UK with venues from Glasgow to Ramsgate.
Our winner was a 'Spoons at the Opera House in Royal Tunbridge Wells.
The opera house first opened its doors to the public back in 1902.
It was later converted into a picture house in the 1930s, before it became a bingo hall and finally a Wetherspoons pub.
Despite the fact that the building hasn't shown opera for close to a century, it's still retained plenty of its features, including the original seating booths and stalls.
The massive chain – which has 827 pubs across the UK – warned last September that 32 pubs were being put up for sale.
Earlier this year, The Sun revealed that Wetherspoons had put 11 more pubs up for sale, leaving fans gutted that their local branch could be lost forever.
The total number of closures has now gone above 40.
