The Pub Itself (including Nicknames)
- Candlestick, West End, Essendon, Hertfordshire: Once the Chequers, lit by a single candle and plunged into darkness when the landlord took the candle to the cellar to fetch beer.
- Crooked Chimney, Lemsford, Hertfordshire: The pub's chimney is distinctively crooked.
- Crooked House, nickname of the Glynne Arms, Himley, Staffordshire. Because of mining subsidence, one side of the pub has a pronounced list—so much so that it is difficult to put one's glass on a table without spilling beer. It is said that if after leaving the pub you turn round and the building is perfectly perpendicular, you've had too much to drink.
- Cupola House, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, has a cupola on its roof.
- Hole in the Wall. The official name or nickname of a number of very small pubs.
- Jackson Stops, Stretton, Rutland: The pub was once closed for a period when the only sign on the outside was that of London estate agent Jackson Stops. The name stuck.
- Kilt and Clover, Port Dalhousie, Ontario, named after the owners. The husband is of Scottish descent, and the wife is of Irish heritage. The split theme runs throughout the pub.
- Nutshell, Bury St Edmunds: one of the foremost claimants to be the smallest pub in the UK and maybe the world.
- Push Inn, Beverley: At one time the pub had no external sign except for that on the entrance door which read, simply, PUSH.
- Red House, Newport Pagnell, and on the old A43 between Northampton and Kettering: red or reddish painted buildings.
- Swiss Cottage was built in Swiss chalet style. It gave its name to an underground station and an area of London.
- Swiss Gardens, Shoreham-by-Sea, originally the pub of a Swiss themed Victorian picnic garden and amusement park.
- Vaults, a number of pubs, not all having vaults as an architectural feature; the word also had the general meaning of 'storeroom'. By extension 'the vaults' was formerly used to designate a particular type of bar. At a time (mid 19th-mid 20th century) when the several areas in a pub served different clientele, 'the vaults' would cater largely for working-class drinkers and would most usually be men-only.
- White Elephant, Northampton, Northamptonshire. Originally built as a hotel to accommodate visitors to the adjacent Northampton Racecourse, the building became a "white elephant" (useless object) when horse racing was stopped at Northampton Racecourse in 1904.
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