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This typical 'black country'
pub was built as a farmhouse in 1765 and is one of the country's
best public house attractions - as a pub that really is crooked.
It was originally known as 'The Glynne Arms' as it was named
after Sir Stephen Glynne on whose estate the pub stood. The pub
is now 4ft lower on one side than on the other due to subsidence
from the effects of coal mining during the 1800's, and is heavily
supported with buttresses and girders. The amazing angle that
the pub sits at has to be seen to be believed. In fact The Crooked
House is one huge optical illusion where curtains hang away from
the window frames, marbles roll uphill on the wall beading, and
drinks slide slowly 'up table'. It is also allegedly haunted. |
