The Houblon Arms

Name: The Houblon Arms
Address: The Houblon Arms, Oasby, Grantham, NG323NB, GB
Telephone: +441529701086
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The Houblon Arms restaurant and boutique hotel is a stone built coaching house dating from c1650 with

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The Houblon Arms, Oasby
Grantham
NG323NB

Telephone

+441529701086

Website

http://www.thehoublonarms.com/

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Fine Food and Hospitality

The Houblon Arms is a delightful stone built coaching house in a prime central location in the Lincolnshire village of Oasby. The building dates from around 1650 and can trace its history as an inn nearly that far back. There are real fires, cosy seating, stripped stone walls and beams; a genuine English hostelry, not an interior designer’s recreation.

Originally called the Old Red Lion, the pub then took its name from the local landowner, Sir John Houblon, who was the first governor of the Bank of England. You can find his likeness on the back of an old £50 note.

During the summer of 2018 the building has undergone an extensive and sympathetic renovation and restoration, reinstating the historic beauty of a truly unique building. Furnished to a stately home standard, the restored 300 year old solid oak beams have been joined by a solid granite wall and bar, oil paintings and antique furniture making it a truly luxurious and relaxing space both for diners and for those wanting to enjoy a fantastic bottle of wine by the open fire.

Four beautiful hotel rooms with bespoke stunning solid oak four poster beds, high quality linens and private hot tubs make for a perfect luxurious break.

The restaurant provides fine dining with the focus on ‘fine food and hospitality’, with high service standards befitting of the high quality food.

During the renovation a stunning, and unusually clay, fire back was found in a fireplace, an image of which has now been adopted as the logo of The Houblon Arms. Used in Inglenook fire chambers typically in Hotel fireplaces and Stately Homes the lion passant guardant (also known as the laughing lion) fire back displays a smiling lion, a rose, thistle and the fluer-de-lys. The fireback has been cleaned and can now be clearly seen in the restaurant fireplace.

Research into the fireback - The thistle is the national flower of Scotland and was first used in the 15th century as a symbol of defence. There is a large rose on the left hand side surmounted by a crown, most likely symbolising the White Rose of York which was later used as the badge of Jacobitism in England and Scotland. Here it most likely represents Charles I. There is a large fleur-de-lys on the upper right hand side surmounted by a crown, most likely symbolising the “Auld Alliance” which was based on a need, shared by Scotland and France, to contain English expansion. While the fleur-de-lys is particularly associated with the French monarchy and remains an enduring symbol of France with the three leaves representing the medieval social classes: those who worked, those who fought and those who prayed. Here is most likely represents Henrietta Maria, sister of Louis XIII who married Charles I in 1626. The magnificent "lion passant guardant" has been used as a heraldic device for many centuries by Scottish Kings. The Houblon Inn was built c1650 the time of the ‘Bishops Wars. This series of civil wars engulfed England in the 1640’s and 50’s, and is known to modern historians as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The Covenanters who opposed the interference by the Stuart kings in the affairs of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland were governing Scotland. They raised a large army of their own and tried to impose their religious settlement on Episcopalians and Roman Catholics in the north of the country.