The small letters lived in the bottom case. So does the bar, behind the shop.
A low room with a brick wall, red velvet chairs and a window onto the yard. It opens at five in the afternoon and closes at midnight, a little later on Saturdays if people are still talking.
This was where the type was stored when it was not in use: lead letters in wooden trays, stacked to the ceiling on racks. The racks were sold to a museum of printing in 1990 and the marks of their feet are still in the brick floor.
What is poured
The bar keeps to Normandy for most of what it pours. Calvados from the Pays d'Auge, in three ages; pommeau, which is apple juice and calvados aged together and drunk cold; cider and perry by the bottle from farms between Honfleur and Lisieux. There is wine as well, and beer from a brewery in Caen.
Something to eat
Until half past ten there are small plates from the Upper Case kitchen: shrimp, a piece of Pont-l'Évêque with bread, smoked fish on toast. After that it is crisps and good company.
- Open daily from 17:00 to midnight
- Non-alcoholic cider and apple juice from the same farms
- A fire in the corner grate from November
- Dogs welcome on a lead
Residents can carry a glass out to the yard on warm evenings. The yard goes quiet at eleven out of respect for the Courtyard Rooms above.
Play happens in a single room of this house, the loft over the old shop, and in no other place. The Printed Room takes no bets online, opens no player accounts and handles no payments through this website.