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43 Main St., West Calder, EH55 8DL (View on Google Map)

(01506) 799967

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Historic Interior

(Pub, External, Key). Published on 24-10-2016

NO REAL ALE - Details shown may not be well maintained.

A listed building, dating from around 1895, with a prominent octagonal turret. Inside is a large U-shaped timber bar with an ornamental central tiered wooden gantry. The coffered ceilings have elaborate cornicing and plastering and there are ornate coloured glass window panels. The jug bar at the entrance has a coloured glass and ornamental finialled crown. There is an interesting marble slab gents urinal.

Information for this venue is provided by the Edinburgh & South East Scotland Branch of CAMRA

Previous Names
Local Authority: West Lothian
Last updated: 23/07/2023
Last surveyed: 22/06/2021
Leasehold owner: unknown
Freehold owner: unknown
Pub ID: EDN/720
Asset of Community Value

Three star - A pub interior of outstanding national historic importance

Listed status: C

Built around 1895, this corner-site pub has a U-shaped servery with a bar on either side. In the centre of the servery is the star attraction, an unusual openwork gantry, delicately detailed, with a two-storey superstructure and slender turned balusters. It has a wide opening in the middle to allow staff easy access from one side to the other. Originally the servery linked up to the back wall, but a customer walkway has been created in recent times. Another significant survival, opposite the entrance, is the now-disused tiny jug bar (or if you prefer the version of some regulars, specially built as the ‘priests’ hole’ where clergy could sneak in undetected for a tipple – so are pub myths born!). A corridor leads to a large, fairly plain lounge. This, like the rest of the Railway, has wooden dado panelling. On the way there, the gents’ offers a rather splendid and unusual marble urinal, plus old wall- and floor-tiling. Listed in 2008 as a result of survey work by CAMRA.

General information about historic pub interiors

Another significant survival, opposite the entrance, is the now-disused tiny jug bar (or if you prefer the version of some regulars, specially built as the ‘priests’ hole’ where clergy could sneak in undetected for a tipple – so are pub myths born!). A corridor leads to a large, fairly plain lounge. This, like the rest of the Railway, has wooden dado panelling. On the way there, the gents’ offers a rather splendid and unusual marble urinal, plus old wall- and floor-tiling. Listed in 2008 as a result of survey work by CAMRA. Food consists of rolls.

General information about historic pub interiors

Monday

11:00am - 11:00pm

Tuesday

11:00am - 11:00pm

Wednesday

11:00am - 11:00pm

Thursday

11:00am - 11:00pm

Friday

11:00am - 1:00am

Saturday

11:00am - 1:00am

Sunday

12:30pm - 11:00pm

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