You could easily walk past this building without realising it used to be a pub. So far we haven't found any evidence that it lasted much more than 15 years. The Rose & Crown is literally across the narrow road, in fact, they both live on the corner of Montague Street and West Street. Building a pub opposite another is not perhaps the most sensible thing to do.

Some closer inspection starts to give clues as to its past. The ornate ends of the signage in this example on the left. Note also the modern sign hides the original one behind it. And did you notice the position of the front door on the first picture? -  classic corner entrance, not exclusive to pubs of course, but common nonetheless.

Another intriguing feature is the street name plate easily missed. Why is it so low? Two reasons I can think of, the first is that no one could be bothered to mount it higher up above the shop sign or, and this is the one I favour . . . there was a window above it!

It is reasonably clear from the picture on the right, that the rendering above the sign is smooth whilst where the sign is mounted and below it is rough cast. This, in my mind, shows it to be below a now bricked up window.