A Victorian Black Country boozer called The Tilted Barrel where pool balls 'roll uphill' is now Britain's wonkiest pub following the loss of the Crooked House.

The 200-year-old pub, in Tipton, West Mids., is just five miles away from its demolished counterpart which was burnt down in a suspected arson attack.

The slanted premises is also wonky due to mining subsidence but unlike the Crooked House, the site is Grade II-listed, which will help protect its future.



Landlady Haych Mann, 38, who took over The Tilted Barrel in February, said it was 'bitter sweet' to possibly be the new 'Britain's wonkiest pub'.

Haych has spent several months refurbishing the run-down premises - which has wonky door frames and tilted floors - to give it a new lease of life.

She says she had to move the pool table to the other bar as it proved difficult to play in the lopsided room where balls seemingly roll uphill - just like the Crooked House.

But she's vowed to keep the dartboard put as its slanted oche gives the pub's darts team an advantage over visiting players.

Haych, from Smethwick, West Mids., said: "It's a bitter sweet moment to know we might be Britain's wonkiest pub now. "

"Most of our regulars drank in the Crooked House too. I'm a local girl so I knew the pub well and we have lost an iconic pub in the Crooked House. "

"So I'm both sad and proud at the same time to learn we might now have that title."

"It's certainly not something I'm celebrating as the Crooked House was a landmark and a piece of Black Country history."

"Our pub is Grade II listed which should offer it more protection if, god forbid, the same thing would ever happen here."

Haych took over her first ever pub on a 15 year lease after 'falling in love' with the quirky features of The Tilted Barrel, which was built in 1820.

It boasts a door more crooked than the building itself, an uneven bar and a shelf which features the illusion of items being able to roll up instead of down.

Pub regular Carl Falconer, 46, a plasterer from Tipton, has been going to the pub for 40 years since he was a young boy.