Even if you pop into The Crooked House pub completely sober, there’s a decent chance you might be tricked into thinking you’ve already had a few pints. The entire building seems to lean to one side, while the windows and walls all appear slanted. It’s pretty disorientating, to say the least.
The Crooked House is a famously wonky boozer that has been around for 192 years. It’s in the West Midlands village of Himley – and now it’s up for sale.
The cause of pub’s crookedness was apparently subsidence caused by mining in the nineteenth century. It was originally built in 1765 as a country house, though it became a pub in the 1830s. The only stuff keeping it upright is a series of buttresses fashioned out of brick and metal.
The pub is being sold by Marston’s and is one of 61 pubs that the chain is selling. And it’s certainly one of the more, erm, characterful establishmnets up for grabs. One side of the pub is a whole four feet shorter than the other – and apparently bartenders enjoy showing off an optical illusion where coins seem to roll up the bar. Very cool, we know.
The Crooked House obvs needs some kind of buyer in order to keep running as a pub. Could you be the hero that’s needed to step in and buy a legendary boozer? You can contact the Crooked House on the official website here.
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