The Cardinal'sHat

Worcester's oldest inn by its own account — fourteenth-century in origin, the present building Georgian, and a Swan and Falcon and Coventry Arms before the Cardinal's Hat name returned in the 1950s. It reopened on May Day 2013 after a careful restoration as a traditional English ale house, Grade II listed, with an interwar-styled interior CAMRA notes approvingly and a plaster cardinal's hat where you'd hope to find one. Nigel Smith, three decades in the trade, holds the licence as a free house, and six Georgian-styled letting rooms sit above the bar on Friar Street, one of England's better-preserved medieval streets.