Travellers Rest, Sheffield

Behind a stone frontage of decent dignity and possibly purpose-built around 1900, the Travellers Rest preserves the basics of its original layout scheme of three rooms off a central hall-cum-lobby. The entrance lobby has a dado of Victorian tiling and there is good stained and leaded glass in the inner door screen. On the front right the tap room has old fixed seating, the bar back looks to date from the inter-war period, the counter may be old with some modern panels added (?) but the fireplace is a replacement.

The front left room with 'Bar Parlour' etched and frosted windows has no old fittings and is home to a pool table. Ahead of the front door is a carpeted lobby with a quarter circle bar that looks to date from at least the 1950s. The most intact room is the back lounge on the right with good bench seating of age, early twentieth century green tiled and wood surround fireplace, a counter front which looks to date from at least the 1950s but has lost its door. There is a good colourful 'Ladies' stained and leaded panel in the door and the rear left room has the wording 'Kitchen'.

The Travellers was briefly owned, from 1909 to 1918, by Strout’s, a small Sheffield brewery: the front window engraved with their name could be unique. Strouts were founded in 1865 and were taken over by Tennants in 1918. They also owned the Commercial in Chapletown. The pub was taken on by Samuel Smith from Whitbread East Pennines Ltd. in 1982. The following year, the rear left lounge came into use as a public room, replacing a domestic kitchen. The rear left Living Room became a Catering Kitchen (plan by Samuel Smith Architects Department) . The handpumps at the Travellers were removed in March 2015.