A prominent pub in Rotherham town centre could be back open soon after successful operators look to take on another venue.
It is another boost for the local leisure and night time economy sector, even before the completion of the Forge Island development this summer, with Rothbiz recently reporting on a rise in new venues applying for premises licences and to change the use of buildings.
Now the team behind Amber Lounge, a contemporary cocktail / champagne bar in the former cinema at the bottom of Ship Hill, has announced on social media that it has signed on to reopen The Corn Law, just around the corner.
The Corn Law Rhymer on High Street / Moorgate Street was sold off by J D Wetherspoon for an undisclosed sum in 2016 to Hawthorn Leisure. It reopend later that year as Stone & Taps but reverted back to being The Corn Law with sporadic opening, not helped by the COVID pandemic.
Hawthorn Leisure was taken over by Admiral Taverns in 2021, and last year agents Everard Cole were brought in to progress a number of disposals for the community pub group. The freehold of The Corn Law was made available for £295,000.
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The substantial three storey premises has a gross external area of 6,083 sq ft, with most of the trading being on the open plan ground floor.
The pub is housed in a property purpose built for the Yorkshire Bank when it opened in 1968. It is on the site of the long-standing Crown Inn which was first recorded in 1605. Previously know as The Litten Tree, its current name recalls Ebenezer Elliott, who achieved fame as the Corn Law Rhymer. The Rotherham-born poet's hard-hitting verses played a significant part in ending the unpopular corn laws which caused widespread hardship in the 19th century.
A Facebook update from Amber Lounge, said: "We are now the proudest owners of this absolute golden oldie and I mean who don't want to see this place back up and running[?]
"After continued success of the Amber Lounge we have decided to expand our business and open up a second venue.
"We cannot wait to get these doors back open."
An opening date has already been set of March 28.
Corn Law Facebook page
Images: Everard Cole / Amber Lounge / Facebook
It is another boost for the local leisure and night time economy sector, even before the completion of the Forge Island development this summer, with Rothbiz recently reporting on a rise in new venues applying for premises licences and to change the use of buildings.
Now the team behind Amber Lounge, a contemporary cocktail / champagne bar in the former cinema at the bottom of Ship Hill, has announced on social media that it has signed on to reopen The Corn Law, just around the corner.
The Corn Law Rhymer on High Street / Moorgate Street was sold off by J D Wetherspoon for an undisclosed sum in 2016 to Hawthorn Leisure. It reopend later that year as Stone & Taps but reverted back to being The Corn Law with sporadic opening, not helped by the COVID pandemic.
Hawthorn Leisure was taken over by Admiral Taverns in 2021, and last year agents Everard Cole were brought in to progress a number of disposals for the community pub group. The freehold of The Corn Law was made available for £295,000.
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The substantial three storey premises has a gross external area of 6,083 sq ft, with most of the trading being on the open plan ground floor.
The pub is housed in a property purpose built for the Yorkshire Bank when it opened in 1968. It is on the site of the long-standing Crown Inn which was first recorded in 1605. Previously know as The Litten Tree, its current name recalls Ebenezer Elliott, who achieved fame as the Corn Law Rhymer. The Rotherham-born poet's hard-hitting verses played a significant part in ending the unpopular corn laws which caused widespread hardship in the 19th century.
"After continued success of the Amber Lounge we have decided to expand our business and open up a second venue.
"We cannot wait to get these doors back open."
An opening date has already been set of March 28.
Corn Law Facebook page
Images: Everard Cole / Amber Lounge / Facebook
Good luck to the new owners, hope they manage to make a success of their new venture. It's a big site, and could really help to breathe a bit of life back into the town centre.
ReplyDeleteNeed to get the Cross keys reopened,right at side of town hall and they've allowed it to become an eyesore, ironically under the ownership of one of there own GET IT SORTED!
ReplyDeleteLovely Stuff!
ReplyDeletePotentially very good news for the town centte
ReplyDeleteGood news a sizeable closed place to reopen is good for town center
ReplyDeleteThere seems to be an air of optimism about the town centre recently. New businesses are opening, Forge Island nears completion, the regular outdoor markets are attracting more shoppers to the town. Rotherham is slowly reinventing itself and long may this continue. It is time for those people who turned their backs on the town centre to give it another try.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. It's just a pity that the regen efforts are 20 years too late and that the Council seems to be doing everything it can to deter visitors with the crazy contraflow systems and cycle lane policies they are imposing everywhere!
ReplyDeleteRotherham Planning. The gift that keeps on giving.
DeleteAnd speaking of 20 years too late, it actually looks as though demolition work is about to start on the burnt out buildings at the bottom of Corporation Street. Wow!!!
ReplyDeleteAt this rate we could well see Rhino's down by 2030
ReplyDeleteA Spearmint Rhinos would be nice. It would be a sign that Rotherham is now only 20 years behind everywhere else.
ReplyDeleteSo just who would a strip club be "nice" for?
ReplyDeleteJez
DeleteWould be nice for anyone who wanted to go,it's called choice and been an adult to make such choices.A small casino would be good too,I have to go to Sheffield or Huddersfield if I fancy an evening in a casino,many towns up and down country have Grosvenor casinos not just large city's.Its about time Rotherham got into 21st century,instead of being stuck in 1940s!
DeleteWell, being an adult involves more than the right to want whatever you want. Lap dancing clubs, which exist for the titillation of males are detested by women's equality groups everywhere. Spearmint Rhino's licence was rightly revoked by the council in 2020. Opening one in Rotherham is your idea of progress?
DeleteJez, your obviously out of touch with real world.You have no right to impose your views on anyone,it's a free country ,if men want to watch women dance then that's there choice,just like it is if women want to watch naked men dance,that's there choice.Its not the place of a politically correct virtue signaller like your yourself,to make decisions for them, particularly when many the likes of yourself can't even decide what sex they are these days,what are you today Jez?😏
DeleteI didn't have you down as that dim Jez. Read the comment again.
ReplyDeleteWhich comment am I to read again. I was responding to the "choice" comment. Was it meant to be ironic.. If so I apologise for not picking up on it.
ReplyDeleteThe spearmint rhino one
ReplyDeleteI wasn't responding to that one old bean.
DeleteHe was responding to the question before last with an answer to the next question but two. And you can shove Spearmint Rhino and the saddos who go there right where the sun don't shine.
ReplyDeleteThe previous post is from an imposter posting under my name.
DeleteNo it isn't.
DeleteIt's outrageous that he should be allowed to impersonate someone who is impersonating him. He is adding to my insecurity. Soon I will be wetting the bed again and it will be his fault.
ReplyDeleteTime to step up to the mark Mr Administrator. Stop all this impersonating nonsense now. One email address one identity. No one to post under the cowardly Anonymous banner. Anyone abusing the rules is banned.
ReplyDeleteSimples.
Infamy, infamy... they've all got it infamy
ReplyDeleteWhere is Jez3 when you need him?
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think all the Jezes are being paranoid. There are too many safeguards on this site to allow multi and impersonators, even of the bed wetting variety
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure that this is not true, aren't you Anonymous Jez3?
DeleteWhat safeguards might that be Jez?
ReplyDeleteJezu son of my creation....
ReplyDeleteAll posts are vetted by Jezuits
ReplyDeleteTo get back on piste as they say, I think that unsavoury establishments would further deter young families and those with normal appetites from visiting the town centre.
ReplyDeleteYou have a point I suppose. And there is always Chesterfield for the really needy.
DeleteYes, well you only have to look at the County.....
ReplyDeleteDon't knock the County. Where else could you see a Granny singing karaoke while breastfeeding a puppy?
ReplyDeleteIt's a cute little thing though. French bulldog I believe
DeleteShe does a great version of Johnny Cash's "Dirty Old Egg-suckling Dog"
DeleteUsually only after 8 pints of Guiness
DeleteIt's great when she swears at top deck passengers as buses go into the Interchange.
ReplyDeleteLook, Caped Crusader! I happen to enjoy going to the County. I am an adult so I get to do what I want as long as the wife doesn't find out. It's called choice right and that is what being an adult is all about. So get off your high horse. If I want to watch an old lady suckling a puppy that's my business and I don't want to have to go to Chesterfield to do it. Or to bet the family allowance in a casino for that matter.
ReplyDeleteIt's not fair to single out the County. There have always been rough pubs in Rotherham. In years past it was the Thatched House and the Falstaff. Today it's the County, the Angel and the Three Horseshoes.
ReplyDeleteWhat about the Black Lion? Now that is a bizarre place if ever I saw one.
ReplyDeleteAll Sam Smith's houses are peculiar but that one certainly takes the biscuit. It's as though they go out of their way to antagonise and alienate their customers
DeleteSam Smith's beer, spirits and soft drinks are awful. Problem is that you can't buy anything else. Wouldn't go in a SS house for love nor money
ReplyDeleteBradgate WMC is Sam Smith's too and there is no way I would ever drink in there. But that's mainly because it's used on match days by Rovrum Wednesdayites
ReplyDeleteWendies will sup where the beer is cheapest, however bad it is.
ReplyDeleteAnd preferably where they don't have to buy a round
ReplyDeleteWalked up High Street today and saw that they are hard at work in the Corn Law. Can't wait!
ReplyDeleteAlways heaving on match days
ReplyDeleteVery happy memories of meeting friends in Corn Law.
ReplyDeleteFriends?
ReplyDeleteWell, acquaintances really
ReplyDelete