Shrewsbury pub with 'rustic charm' reopens after 18 months - and landlord says customers are 'loving it'
“Good beer, good food, good people.” That’s the vision of the landlord of newly reopened Shrewsbury pub The Coach and Horses.
The town centre pub, which shut in the summer of 2024, has been shown some love with a £40,000 refurbishment led by new boss Nick Hodgkiss.
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A walk through shows the 500-year-old former coaching house as a clean, welcoming hostelry, which retains much of its rustic charm.
Nick, who has also run Cromwell’s Tap House in Dogpole for the last three years, officially took The Coach and Horses over in mid-November this year, and has quickly been able to get it open for business in time for the busy Christmas season.
“What a magnificent building it is,” he said. “We’ve been open now just over two weeks, trying to bring some love back into an old, classic pub.
“We’ve changed quite a lot inside but tried to be humble, warm and atmospheric, in keeping with the fact it's a 500-year-old coaching house.
