New Inn, Uckfieldback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
A rare, Spartan rural survivor: single bar with woodblock floor, fixed bench seating, and Victorian shelves and drawers in the bar-back. No modern distractions to convivial chat with the half-dozen locals on a summer Saturday afternoon. Harvey's IPA in tip-top condition. Highly recommended.
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Still a great, unspoilt pub. The landlord is committed to keeping it that way and gets a lot of support from the local community. It has a small car park to the right when viewed from the front.
Opening hours: Sat and Sun: 12-24. Mon - Fri 18-24, at time of writing.
Beers on handpump: Harvey's IPA, Best and Old Ale. All in perfect condtion. The IPA is £3.00 a pint, and for SE England, that's cheap! There is a lager on draught for the non beer drinkers.
Quite rightly a CAMRA Heritage Pub.
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Tastefully spruced up recently with no loss of the excellent character of the pub. Always a relaible pint, sometimes good music sessions. A real rural gem.
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I went here yesterday for a funeral wake in the function room next to the main bar.I think it may have changed ownership recently.The function room is a reasonable size served from a quaint hatch across the entrance foyer.The anaglypta and half boarded interior decor seems to be freshly decorated.There was Harveys Best and Harveys Hadlow Bitter on draught.I had a pint of the latter at �3 a pint.It was very good.The landlord was friendly.The main bar visible through the serving hatch had a few early evening drinkers in.There is seating outside the front on the road and a car park beside the pub.The Gents toilet is round the back in a separate outbuilding which is charmingly old fashioned - it was probably open air once upon a time.The outside of the pub looks freshly painted and a bit smarter from when i have driven past in previous years.I think this pub has character and will benefit from its revamp as long as is does not go into the pastel heritage shades gastro pub poncification territory.The beer was 10/10.
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I call in here sometimes. The landlord is a bit of a character. This pub is pretty much unchanged for the last 50 years, at least, which is a good thing in my book. I tell my grown up kids to enjoy this pub while they can, it's one of a dying breed. Think 'Harvester' at one end of the pub scale, this is at the other end. No food, no carpets, no brass numbers on the tables, very basic but I've never had a bad pint there. Friendly locals and a popular pub with the traction engine crowd. Be there first week-end in June. You will see what I mean.
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Popped in for a beer on an scheduled stop-off due to our tour organizer realizing it was listed as a heritage pub.
The signs on the outside aren't promising - the paintwork is peeling and the pub sign is falling apart. When you venture inside, you find a similar story. There's a lot of dilapidation in the main big front bar that needs addressing, the old bits of wood, real fire and ancient brewania don't really compensate for the fact that the place is a bit of a dump - it needs a lot of TLC (just a lick of paint would be a start) but there is a nice pub waiting to spring out as some of the photos above testify. Oddly, he only part of the place which has been done up to any great degree is the back room, which only hosts a pool table which takes up all the space - so much for the drinkers!
Beer -wise, there were two ales on; Harveys Sussex Best (average) and a Tom Woods (Bomber County I think) which went off almost immediately when we arrived. No great shakes.
All in all, I could only say it's worth popping in for a swift half at present but I really hope that someone can take hold of this place and turn it into the pub it could and should be.
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Nearly empty on a Friday night with just a few friendly locals. It is in the National Inventory of Historic Pubs and is well worth visiting, but for how much longer I wonder as only one bar was open. Quality of the beer reasonable.
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