We are excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with the pub's owner to purchase the Rose and Crown Inn.
We have instructed a law firm experienced in commercial property transactions, with plenty of experience working with other community pubs. We intend to purchase by the end of March.
In parallel, we have launched a Membership Loans offer to raise the additional funds required to complete the purchase and begin renovation work on the pub.
The offer is exclusively available to investors in Nympsfield Community Pub Limited. If you are in investor, please check your inbox for more information.
Exciting times ahead!
To create a welcoming pub at the heart of our village to meet, socialise and connect with others - owned by and for the benefit of the community.
To purchase the only pub in our village, the Rose & Crown Inn, and transform it into a thriving community business that will benefit the residents of Nympsfield and the surrounding villages, as well as attracting visitors from farther afield to use its restaurant and accommodation.
We aim to convert part of the building into a community café and village shop ensuring that our pub provides much-needed services and amenities for all sections of the community in this relatively isolated rural village.
Reopening the Rose & Crown Inn as a community-owned pub will reinvigorate our village by providing local groups, friends, and neighbours with a convivial hub to meet and socialise throughout the day. By appealing to all sections of the community the pub will improve social cohesion and reduce social isolation as well as provide residents with training and employment opportunities; and as a thriving profitable enterprise the pub has the potential to provide essential funding to other community groups in Nympsfield. When we achieve these outcomes, we know that our project has succeeded.
The earliest mention of this historic building is in 1684, when a lease in which the building where the Rose and Crown now is, and its adjoining meadow, were rented for £23 per annum,
Originally known The Ducie Arms, our village pub changed it's name to the Rose and Crown around 1890's.
An advertisement in Symonds 1907 directory reads:
‘First class house for boarding residents in the most picturesque part of Gloucestershire. Excellent catering and capital accommodation for visitors, picnic parties, cyclists, etc. An ideal spot to spend a weekend. Good stabling. Prop. J. Ford.’
The Ownership of the pub passed through Stroud Brewery and on to Whitebread brewery, before the freehold was bought in the 1980's.
Sadly, last orders were called on the Rose & Crown Inn early 2023.
Nympsfield Community Pub Limited was incorporated in April 2024 as a community benefit society to acquire the Rose & Crown Inn as a community-owned pub for the benefit of the community.
Nympsfield Community pub