☏ 01947 880400 laurelrooms@outlook.com New Road, Robin Hood's Bay
The beamed bar at The Laurel Inn

Grade II Listed · Early 18th Century

Robin Hood's Bay's quirkiest, smallest, friendliest pub.

A beamed bar, a roaring cast-iron fire, and rooms above — right in the heart of the bay. Loved by locals, discovered by everyone else.

01947 880400 · laurelrooms@outlook.com

Since c.1700sGrade II listed, 1969
100% recommend255 Facebook reviews
4.7★ / 435Google reviews
Two flatsLetting rooms above the pub

Welcome

The best pub in the world — its guests say so.

Tucked into New Road at the bottom of Robin Hood's Bay, The Laurel Inn is a proper local: an immaculately kept, beamed bar with a cast-iron range and the open fire roaring. No fruit machines, no jukebox — just cask ale, good company, and a fire that's always lit.

Upstairs, two letting flats give guests a place to stay right where the bay's cobbled streets end and the sea begins.

StyleTraditional beamed pub
RoomsTwo self-catering flats
ListedGrade II, since 1969
LocationNew Road, Robin Hood's Bay
The cast-iron fireplace at The Laurel Inn

A pub since the 1700s

Older than almost everything around it.

The older, eastern half of the building dates from the early 18th century, built alongside the adjacent Maid Marion cottage — the sandstone western extension came later, in the early-to-mid 1800s. Rendered walls with incised detail, sash windows, a pantile roof with stone copings: the building was given Grade II listed status in 1969, protecting it as a structure of special historic interest.

Historic archival photograph of The Laurel Inn

Good to know

The practical bits, upfront.

LocationNew Road, Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby YO22 4SE
RoomsTwo self-catering flats above the pub
StyleCask ales, no fruit machines, no jukebox
ListedGrade II since 1969
Google4.7★ from 435 reviews
Contact01947 880400 · laurelrooms@outlook.com

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