Crooked by name, crooked by nature (Picture: Caters)

You have to drink quite a lot for buildings you’re looking at to appear like this one…

Step away from the post-Christmas egg nog, kids. Actually, don’t.

Admire, instead, this cray-cray olde inn.

It really is this skew-whiff.


One side of The Crooked House pub in Himley, Staffs, known as ‘Britain’s drunkest pub’, is 4ft lower than the other because mining in the 1800s caused subsidence.

Try telling that to the super-excited tourists, though.

As Dan Lewis, the 27-year-old pub manager, says: ‘We get visitors come from all over the world – as far as Japan and Australia – and they just can’t believe it. They’re convinced it was designed like this but it certainly wasn’t.’



What kind of architect would design such a wonky building?

Pub manager Dan Lewis. Nope, nothing odd here (Picture: Caters)

Coins roll up/down the bar and glasses slide along ‘flat’ surfaces.

And, as Lewis says, ‘It can be really disorientating at first. When I first came in I didn’t have a drink because I felt so dizzy.’

Sounds like a nightmare. No. ‘It’s brilliant to run such a unique place,’ says Lewis.

And, look, where else could you get away with doing that hilaaaarious Charlie Chaplin impression?

*clinks glasses* *falls over*

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