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Location: Barracks Passage, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury SY1 1XA

Year of Inscription: 2025

Venue Type: Historic Building / Refurbished Tavern / Tied Pub

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EBG Rating:	7.7/10
Choice/ Quality of Drinks	❤️❤️❤️❤️ Joule’s Brewery beers, a good reputation for being well kept, which we have usually found too. A range of styles on cask and keg. A typical back bar selection.
Style/ Décor	❤️❤️❤️❤️ Showpiece refurbishment with a lavish, going on whimsical effort in Mock Tudor, mock being the operative word. The building itself is genuine however, and is striking on the street and side alley, genuinely like stepping back in time. Inside, its modern but inspired by Tudor with niches, bookshelves, candelabras, taxidermy all pleasant amidst wood and warm lighting. Dining area upstairs.
Atmosphere/ Character	❤️❤️❤️❤️ A sense of modernity to the refit is slightly jarring given the building’s undoubted history, but wood and warm lighting amidst the niches make this a pleasant environment for a drink.
Amenities/ Events	❤️❤️❤️ Food, snacks, function room, real fire
Value For Money	❤️❤️❤️ Steady pricing given the central location, nothing out of the ordinary.
Description	The only pub in Shrewsbury in a Grade I listed building. The exterior is extraordinary and one of the landmark timber frame buildings in the city – with some competition for that prize too. The cobbled alleyway of Barracks Passage suggests a coaching inn, but the truth is that there is little evidence this operated as a pub until the mid-Victorian era, although it did operate as a brewhouse at one point. The pub function ceased again before a large expansive 90s restoration, since added to by Joule’s Brewery. The interior therefore is very much Mock Tudor, a creative simulacra of themes, verging towards whimsical but using the natural structure of the building in a complimentary way. It’s an audacious, big-budget effort. Plenty of niches and a nice bar area under those chunky beams means it’s a nice place to go for a drink.  There is plenty to go at with the suite of Joule’s beers weighing in superior to a certain, far more notorious brewery and pub company. The building’s main claim to fame is that Henry Tudor stated here en route to Bosworth field.(Added February 2025)