Black Horse, Clapton-In-Gordano (Kicker)

Stone built pub dated xxxx. The main bar was clearly subdivided in the past - markings on the red tiled floor indicate the loss of a partition wall in the mid 1980s which would have formed, along with another partition where the tiles change to flagstone, a tiny snug in front of the large stone fireplace and also a separate darts area. (Surviving examples of the original layout are very rare indeed - the best example being the Kings Head, Laxfield in Suffolk). The counter is xxxxxxxx, the shelving in the servery area dates from XXXXX and there are a row of casks stillage at the rear. Down the side of the bar is a separate room which at one time was the village lock-up - note the iron bars in the rear window. This small narrow room with a lino tiled floor has a small counter which sometime in the past 30 years replaced an earlier simple affair, as the old photo on the wall shows. The dado panelling on the walls is old and there are some carved wooden settles (and a collection of china pots hanging from the ceiling). service. On the opposite side of the passage that runs from the front door to the rear is a separate room with an old stone fireplace which was formerly xxxxxxx / brought into use in xxxxxxx. Outside gents' and ladies' and a hatch for the garden.