After several months of closure, this attractive, comfortable free-house re-opened in January 2016 under new ownership and after some refurbishment. The main open plan bar area features beamed ceilings and wood pillars, with a 24-foot diameter 19th-century overshot water-wheel visible at one end. (The water-wheel is awaiting restoration and is not currently operational.) A smart restaurant, with exposed roof trusses, is upstairs and normally set out for around 40 guests, but can cater for up to 56.
Meals are mainly English, Indian or Italian (there is a dedicated pizza kitchen with pizza oven); separate menus for evenings, Saturday lunch and Sunday lunch (see website).
Historic Interest
Originally the site of a corn mill, followed by a furnace in the 17th-century. Rebuilt as a water-powered screw mill in the late 18th-century, it later became a corn mill again, then a saw mill and a maltings. The building was eventually abandoned around 1945. Radical reconstruction saw the conversion into a pub in 1987, but retaining the 19th-century iron water wheel, with further sensitive and extensive restoration work in 1999.
This Pub serves 3 changing beers and 1 regular beer.
Mill Wheel, Hartshorne
Source: Regional
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