The Anneof Cleves

The Anne of Cleves occupies a building on Burton Street in Melton Mowbray that dates to the 14th century, when it housed chantry priests attached to St Mary's Church next door. Henry VIII granted the property to Anne of Cleves as part of her 1540 annulment settlement, and the pub takes her name from that grant. The building served as a tea room through the early 1900s before a 1996 restoration converted it into the pub and restaurant it is today, retaining stone-flagged floors, exposed timber beams and a section of original ceiling thatch. It is family run, serving cask ale alongside wines and cocktails, with a full food menu and a walled beer garden. The pub stands beneath St Mary's Church in the town centre and is dog-friendly. It trades as a single free house with no ties to a pub company, drawing on the building's documented Tudor-era history rather than reproduction period features.