BEER AT HOME!

Midland couple turn their front room into tiny pub for locals

- ED CHATTERTON News Reporter

A MIDLAND couple have spent thousands of pounds transforming the front room of their new home into one of Britain's smallest pubs.

Hazel and Andrew Smith bought the four bedroomed property in pictur-esque Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, for £385,000 in 2022.

The pair then spent six months and £50,000 converting the front room into a 3.5m (11ft) x 4.2m (13ft) taproom, which has a capacity of just 20 people.

Hazel, 53, even gave up her job as well as selling their home in Tewksbury, to focus on running the high street micro-pub called J Maverick & Co.

She says their front room boozer is "the very definition of a public house" selling craft ales and ciders by independent breweries and is full to capacity most nights.

They can welcome anyone from locals, tourists, festival-goers and the local rugby club who cram into the pub, which has just one table for six and a window seat.

Hazel said: "We bought this house knowing that we could make a beautiful tap room.

"I think the charm of the place is that it is so small, it encourages conversation and is the very definition of a public house.

"As there’s only one table people talk to each other and nobody really sits on their phones.