The Sloop Inn
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The Sloop Inn is an inn in St Ives
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial...

, Cornwall
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, England
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, UK
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 located on the wharf. It is one of the best known and oldest inns in Cornwall. The 14th century public house is dated to "circa 1312".The Sloop was the favourite haunt of Louis Grier and many of his paintings hung there in earlier years. The Rogers family hosted the Sloop Inn for nearly a century.

Architecture

It is described as "A classic old fishermen's boozer, complete with low ceilings, tankards behind the bar and a comprehensive selection of Cornish ales." The inn, dated to the 17th or 18th century, is a Grade II listed building, listed on 4 June 1952. It is described as a "low, L-shaped building, of colourwashed granite rubble with tarred plinth", with "19th century double-hung sashes and easements and no glazing bars".
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