Inside UK’s wonkiest pub where coins ‘roll uphill’ in optical illusion

TAKE a look inside Britain’s “wonkiest” pub where coins roll the wrong way.

The bizarre pub has gone up for sale – so visit while you still can.

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The Crooked House, in Himley, West Midlands, has attracted fans from the four corners of the world since it became a pub in the 1830s.

And it’s all down to its odd structure and crooked bar.

Said to be a favourite of visitors, the building slants to the left and is decorated with crooked doorways and wonky windows.

One side of the pub is a metre lower than the other.

Even the inside is slanted – the pub is complete with an uneven bar where coins appear to roll uphill in a bizarre optical illusion.

But the pub’s future is uncertain, as customers worry it could shut for good.

It has been put on the market just months after it had a major makeover.

The structure, first constructed in 1765 as a farmhouse, stays up as it is propped up by buttresses made of bricks and metal bars.

Marston’s are set to sell the pub as one of 61 separate venues that are to be sold off.

But locals are concerned the popular boozer could be closed unless a buyer is found, the Mirror reported.

Derrick McConell, 64, of Dudley, who has drank in the pub for more than 20 years, said the venue had struggled to get back on its feet following the pandemic.

He said: “It would be a shame to lose it because there’s no place like it elsewhere.”

Originally known as The Siden House – which means crooked in Black Country dialect – the pub got its bizarre effect through subsidence caused by mining in the 1800s.

Visitors from places such as America, Australia, Japan, China, New Zealand have travelled to have a pint at the pub, placing it on the tourist map in the area.

Another regular, Jim Knowlson, 54, was more optimistic about a potential takeover.

Jim said: “This is a chance to own what has been called Britain’s wonkiest pub and Britain’s drunkest pub.

“Surely there’s some appeal there. It’s a piece of history.”

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