A NEW restaurant will replace a former much-loved pub in Dorchester.
The Bull's Head Inn on the High Street in Fordington is to be converted into a restaurant.
New owners of the site are looking to bring a Nepalese and Indian restaurant to the area, which is expected to be open around early December time.
The business taking over the site is Everest 29032, which has an award-winning restaurant in Bournemouth and has advertised the Dorchester address on its website and social media.
A historic pub in the heart of Fordington, one of the earliest references to the Bull’s Head Inn comes from 1839, according to the OPC for Fordington. It was an Eldridge Pope pub during its early years before it was sold around the turn of the twentieth century to Hall and Woodhouse Brewery.
It is one of a number of Grade II listed buildings between houses 91 to 97 which was first added in 1975.
In 2009, the pub was closed for five months, but soon reopened by Sarah Gifford.
The pub was reportedly closed sometime around 2016 with the hopes that it could be reopened again.
However, during the Covid pandemic, the pub closed for good, and has remained empty on the street since.
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