Shrewsbury, Shropshire:
This is a hotel, but scrapes in as it’s on the CAMRA Heritage Pubs site, not for the bar we drank in, but for
the Oak Bar, situated just inside the hotel on the left hand side
friendly staff. The inside is best described as “faded grandeur”: it’s lovely, stunning even, but really needs a sympathetic, light-touch restoration to bring it up to scratch as a hotel, as evidenced by Tripadvisor reviews. No cask ale, but we were drinking water anyway: the only time we managed to purchase sparkling water on our trip.