Vintners Parrot 4.23

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10 Warwick Street
Worthing, BN11 1
United Kingdom

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The Vintners Parrot is a pub in the centre of the town and borough of Worthing, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. Although established as a public house only in the late 20th century, it occupies two early 19th-century listed buildings of completely different character in the oldest part of the town: a Greek Revival-style former wine merchants premises, and a Neoclassical chapel built for Wesleyan Methodists in 1839. The main part of the pub is in the wine merchants building facing Warwick Street, while the old chapel, facing Bedford Row, serves as its function room. Both buildings have been designated separately as Grade II Listed Buildings.Roberts and Son Wine Merchants, 10–12 Warwick StreetHistoryThe Roberts family entered the wine trade five years after Worthing was granted the status of a town in 1803—a development which encouraged rapid residential and commercial growth. In 1808, they established their business in a newly built yellow-brick building on the south side of Warwick Street, part of Worthing's old village street and one of the first roads to develop in the town's early years. The premises may have been built by John Rebecca, architect of many of Worthing's early buildings.The business thrived, and a beer and wine shop (similar to a present-day public house or wine bar) were added. This was called the Vintners Arms, but it was usually known as the Thieves Kitchen locally—a humorous reference to its popularity with local tradesmen. In the 1830s, the premises were rebuilt in the Greek Revival style, again using the pale brickwork often seen on old buildings in Worthing: the town had many brickworks in the 19th century, and the local clay yielded creamy-yellow bricks.

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