These are the best-looking pubs in the UK, according to CAMRA

The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has announced the winners of its annual Pub Design Awards.

The awards, held in association with Historic England, recognise high standards of architecture in the refurbishment and the conservation of existing pubs.

“Our 2017 winners celebrate an enormously wide variety of building styles and contexts – from a modern new build to a historic high street landmark, from a textile mill conversion to a Victorian restoration,” said Sean Murphy, CAMRA’s Pub Design Awards coordinator.

“The sheer diversity of these winners, and their evident commercial success, shows just how vibrant a pub can be – and what an agent of regeneration it can provide – if treated with respect and sensitivity for both building and clientele.”

Keep scrolling to see some very beautiful ancient mills, coffee houses, and hotels, and get some inspiration for your next pub trip.

Bowland Beer Hall, Lancashire — Best Conversion

Once a textile mill, The Bowland Beer Hall in Clitheroe, Lancashire, was the only traditional pub outside of London to make it into this year’s list, picking up the “conversion to pub use” award.

Home to one of the longest bars in Britain — 105ft 4” to be exact — the Beer Hall is Bowland Brewery’s flagship taproom. It boasts 42 hand pulls, hosting a minimum of 24 individual cask beers at any one time.

The Fitzroy Tavern, London — Best Refurbishment

The Fitzroy Tavern, formerly a Victorian coffee house, won the “refurbishment” award and overall Best Pub Design after Yorkshire brewing business Samuel Smiths returned the pub to its 1897 guise, installing new partitions and wrought-iron pub signs.

The judges praised the London pub’s attention to detail, noting that “the surviving tiling has been sensitively restored and the new wallpaper and repo carpets are well-chosen.”

The Greenwood, Middlesex — Best Conservation

Wetherspoon’s pubs are sometimes marked by their incongruous extravagance. With that in mind, the Greenwood Hotel in Northolt, Middlesex, took home the “conservation” award thanks to the careful restoration of its Grade II listed building in 2016.

The pub, originally built in the late 1930s by Courage & Co to serve the fast-growing Northolt suburb, the two-storey, L-shaped building once boasted a billiards room, assembly hall, and travellers’ accommodation. Many of its original features remain intact.

The judges said: “Still as much of a hub for the local community as it was in 1939, the fine, sympathetic conservation work executed at this pub shows how subtlety and respect can often achieve more than big-budget transformation.”

The Sail Loft, London — Best New Build

The youngest pub to win an award from CAMRA, the bright and airy Sail Loft, owned by Fuller’s, was praised as the UK’s best new build pub.

CAMRA said the judges were impressed by the Greenwich pub’s “tasteful display of modern design, setting a wonderful example of “how to do it well” with floor-to-ceiling glazing, finishes of decent quality, a well-crafted island servery and very pleasant seating.”