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The Romany was situated on Bridge Street.  This was a grade-II listed pub.

Review from tantallon.org.uk:

Free House Now here is a pub. The prices listed below are not misprints and are the cheapest I have seen. There's six beers on cask, accommodation upstairs, and food which is dramatically cheap (all under five pounds for a main course) (though it was fully booked the day I went for reasons of the Bampton Morris passing through) too. It's comfortably but not excessively plush and it has a non-smoking restaurant section as well. The service is friendly and there's a reasonably pretty garden out the back with benches, unfortunately beyond the car park, and that was full too. Recommended in the strongest terms. Archers Village Bitter £1.35 Hook Norton Best (3.9%) £1.45 Donnington SBA £1.65 Strongbow Dry Cider £1.90 Guinness Stout £2.10 (25.v.1998)

Listed building details:

Former house and shop, now small hotel. Early C19. Limestone ashlar front with coursed rubble side and rear walls. Hipped Welsh slate roof, ashlar chimneys to centre and right, white brick chimney to left. Square plan. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Projecting plinth and band courses. Upper storeys have 3-pane sash windows in recessed surrounds, the central first floor bay with French doors to balcony. Ground floor has canted bay windows with sashes to outer bays, the left of ashlar with recessed window surrounds and parapet, the right much reconstructed C20 and mostly of wood. To centre is a large former shop window with C20 glazing bars and flanking doorways in recessed surrounds. Left doorway has flush panelled door and blind fanlight; narrower doorway to right is blocked. Across front of whole of centre bay is a porch with stone Doric columns and entablature blocks, wooden cornice, and balcony above with early C19 cast iron railings. (Illustrated in Country Life, July 19th, 1946, p119)

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