Finchampstead: Inside refurbished Greyhound pub after £500k investment

The Greyhound pub Longwater Road, Finchampstead can reveal its new look to punters, featuring heated pods, a drinking terrace and more.

The pub has undergone significant renovations to the property and now includes a landscaped garden with three terraced areas, its own village shop and a pergola-covered dining area.

James Lyon Shaw, who now owns the business with Jamie Dobbin, said: "This is the third pub we have taken with Greene King Pub Partners since June 2018 and we’ve again been able to create a wonderful village pub with the Greyhound through this joint investment.

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"The whole place is different and we’re looking forward to welcoming back customers old and new to the pub and shop and becoming a central part of the community”.

A village shop has also been created called Goswell & Bird’s which is transformed in the evening into an alternative dining and event space.

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Graeme Marley, Business development manager for Greene King Pub Partners, said, “We have invested in excess of £500,000 with Brucan Pubs over the last 18 months both at the Drumming Snipe in Woking and most recently at the Greyhound.

"This latest investment has created a fantastic pub for the local area and visitors alike and we are confident that the pub will go from strength to strength”.

Since reopening the Greyhound, Brucan Pubs have created 40 new jobs.

They employ a total of 150 across the business with six apprentices within their three pubs with Greene King Pub Partners, The Greene Oak, Windsor, Drumming Snipe, Worthing and the Greyhound, Finchampstead.