The Sun is a traditional inn and has two main bar areas, a conservatory and an attractive courtyard garden. The cosy snug bar has many original features such as a slab stone floor, panelled walls, oak beamed ceilings and a stunning inglenook fireplace. It's the perfect place to enjoy a pint of real ale, great home-cooked food, and a game of darts or dominoes with the locals.
Catherine pulls at "Maggie Marshalls"
The comfortable lounge bar is well known for its period furniture and is also host to spectacular ancient beamed ceilings. We serve at least two regular traditional real ales and always have a guest ale on offer, more during the Clun Valley Beer Festival.
Well behaved dogs are welcome in the snug bar.
The lounge bar features what are reputed to be a set of the oldest beer pumps in Britain. They reputedly originate from a long gone public house in Fleet Street where Charles Dickens was a regular patron. They are affectionately known as "Maggie Marshalls" in reference to a former barmaid or landlady of the pub. On an eerie note it seems that the ghost of Mrs Marshall comes looking for them: she has been seen on many a night after closing time sitting watchfully under the clock in the snug bar.
The lounge bar is also home to a rare surviving example of 17th century wall paper discovered some years ago during a period of restoration and redecoration. Measuring approximately 2' 6" x 2' 6" it remains in situ giving us a flavour of what the Sun Inn would have looked like over three hundred years ago.
In the bar, you will find the Mervyn Jones Trophy for the Clun Clay Pigeon Club.
Of course, as well as real ales, we serve a selection of keg and bottle beers, wines and soft drinks.
The Bakehouse, now used as a function room and for pool, houses two ovens. During this time, the room was used as a bakery and the rooms directly above functioned as a granary.
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