ELDENE’S Crumpled Horn is one of five quirky English pubs to be handed a listed rating.

The pub, off Dorcan Way, has been given a Grade II heritage listing, recognising its cultural status.

Designed around the theme of the nursery rhyme This is the House that Jack Built, the pub opened in 1975. Roy Wilson-Smith, the pub’s architect, was an advocate of themed pubs.

Announcing the new heritage listings Duncan Wilson, chief executive of Historic England, said: "Pubs were springing up in their thousands from the mid-1950s and became the hub of communities. From the Crumpled Horn to the Never Turn Back, these five fascinating post-war pubs are among the best surviving examples of a building type which is embedded in English culture."

Heritage inspectors said the eight sided Crumpled Horn pub has an “air of eccentric craftsmanship in its asymmetrical roof and ramshackle brickwork”.

What are the other pubs on the list?

The Never Turn Back, Caister-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth

Opened in 1957, it is the only pub of its name in the country, chosen as a memorial to the Caister Lifeboat disaster of 1901 that killed nine lifeboatmen.

The Queen Bees, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire

Named after a blast furnace at the nearby Appleby-Frodingham steelworks, this 1959 pub retains many of its historic fittings.

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The Centurion, Twerton, Bath, Somerset

There is a clear Roman theme to this 1965 pub, with statues of Julius Caesar and an army centurion. Built by H R Robinson of West Country Breweries.

The Wheatsheaf, Camberley, Surrey

Built in 1970/71, this is the only design by renowned by architects John and Sylvia Reid to have survived intact.

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