Why does the Stag face the way it does?

[WillowTheWhisp]

Well my guess was that it faced the main road as was in the days it was built but I think I said that umpteen posts ago so it can't be right.

[staggeringman]

the stag faces the way it does ,because the front of the stag as it is now was added at a later date!

[WillowTheWhisp]

So which way did it face originally?

[staggeringman]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

So which way did it face originally?

the stag had a door on the side of henry street.that is the main part of the building,when it was renovated they covered it in all in that white horrible stuff and you cant see it. but a few locals still remember how it was! also willow the mail comes addressed to henry st, and bank st. one landlord got the building stripped to the original stone but was made to cover it back up because he did not get permission from the council,it also looked a mess where they put different stone in to block doors and windows!

[WillowTheWhisp]

So the answer is that it faces the way it does because originally it didn't ?

Any idea how long ago that door was blocked up?

[staggeringman]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

So the answer is that it faces the way it does because originally it didn't ?

Any idea how long ago that door was blocked up?

apparantley late sixties early seventies.

[WillowTheWhisp]

I'll have to go and stand staring at the wall to see if it jogs my memory into a vision of how it used to be - probably won't.

[Tealeaf]

Some of the old boys in the tap room will give you a date sometime in the 1950's as to when the side door was blocked up. However, the main entrance to the Stag is the one we know and the one that faces south-west, along with most of the windows in the pub (compare the number of windows on this main side with the number of windows on the Henry Street side of the pub).

...One more clue, then, as to why the pub faces the way it does. The answer will be tomorrow night, 6pm, unless someone else gets there first.

[WillowTheWhisp]

It faced either a main road, a village green or some other thing of significance?

[Tealeaf]

So why does the Stag face in the direction it does face? Well, the answer is very, very simple.

It faces southwest, and hence it gets the maximum sunlight. The back of the pub faces northeast, and hence remains coolest. Well before the days of refrigeration and big breweries, and during the time of Staggeringman’s predecessor bar about a 100, the landlord would have brewed his own beer on the premises. That would have had to be kept somewhere dark and cool (not necessarily in the cellar because pumping and dispensing systems were not available) …so brewing and storage would have taken place at the back of the pub

Meanwhile, any thirsty traveller or local yokel could take advantage sitting directly outside with his pint on a hot summers day and look over the adjoining crossroad and watch the world go by; or, if raining, stay indoors and stare contentedly out the expensive South-West facing windows contemplating the meaning of life and wondering just when someone would invent the Accy Web….

[fibi]

don't mean to sound ignorant but where exactly is the Stag?? I know tanpits garage (Frasers coaches) but not sure what the pub is called on there.