Transformation for Barnstaple pub
THE owner of a local Chinese restaurant has taken over the North Country Inn on Mermaid Walk in Barnstaple.
Businessman James Li, who owns the Fullam restaurant in Tuly Street, plans to turn the Grade II-listed town centre pub into a cocktail bar and Asian restaurant.
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North Country Inn
Restoration work will probably take six months, Mr Li said.
The North Country Inn was one of the oldest pubs in Barnstaple when it closed its doors in spring this year. The pub company who owned it, Enterprise Inns, then put the building on the market.
The pub, which was already established by 1764, had been with a number of leaseholders and struggled to attract customers immediately before it closed.
2 Comments
by Tim Hickman, Barnstaple
Thursday, December 17 2009, 5:02PM
“Well done James - I wish you the very best of luck. If anyone can make it work properly it's you. It's about time a few more Barnstaple "entrepeneurs" stopped moaning and got on with it.”
by G, Barny
Thursday, December 17 2009, 8:41AM
“Wonder if Mr Li knows its haunted!!! Good luck to him, I hope the pub does well from this”