Open
The successor is reported as trading under its new identity.
After Beefeater
The story continues under new signs.
Some familiar buildings are already welcoming customers again. Others have a named new owner but still await a trading name, conversion or completed sale. This register keeps those very different stages apart.
Original editorial reconstruction · fictional unbranded successor pub · not a real Beefeater location
Opening date confirmed
The new operator has published a future opening date.
Conditional or planned
A buyer or intended use is known, but completion details remain unpublished.
Planning approval
Works are approved, but completion and an opening date remain unconfirmed.
Open, officially dated or approved
Five buildings. Five evidenced next steps.
These are successor venues with a reported reopening, an operator-published opening date or an approved conversion plan. Those stages are not interchangeable, so each card says exactly what the evidence establishes.
Open
Formerly Great Yarmouth Seafront · Great Yarmouth
The Dunes
Now operated by Queensway Inns
The South Beach Parade Beefeater closed before the national final date and became the first reported Queensway conversion to trade under its new identity.
Open
Formerly The Farmhouse · Crewe
The Marshfield Bank Farm House
Now operated by J D Wetherspoon
Wetherspoon’s live venue record now marks the successor open at the former Beefeater address on Coppenhall Lane. It lists service from 7am daily, closing at midnight Sunday to Thursday and 1am on Friday and Saturday.
Opening date confirmed
Formerly Smugglers Haunt · Ferndown
The Cranborne Hundred
Now operated by J D Wetherspoon
Wetherspoon’s own venue page identifies the new pub at the former Beefeater address on Ringwood Road and now gives 29 September as the scheduled opening date, replacing the previously listed 16 September date.
Planning approval
Formerly Oast & Squire · Fareham
Toby Carvery (planned)
Planned operator Mitchells & Butlers
Fareham Borough Council approved refurbishment works to the Grade II-listed building. Reporting on the application identifies Toby Carvery as the intended format, but the record does not establish a completed handover or opening date.
Under consideration
Formerly The Stanborough · Welwyn Garden City
McDonald’s (proposed)
Applicant McDonald’s Restaurants Ltd
The council’s live record names McDonald’s Restaurants Ltd as applicant and agent for alterations to the former restaurant. The application remains under consideration: there is no planning approval, confirmed opening date or completed property transaction in the public record checked.
The conditional Queensway list
Fourteen linked names, ten current Queensway venue pages.
A published 53-site sale schedule labels these 14 properties as Beefeater. Whitbread described the wider transaction as conditional, with Queensway intending to operate the sites as going concerns. The Queensway now publishes current venue pages for ten matched sites. The remaining entries stay conditional or unresolved; a live operator page does not by itself prove that every legal condition in the property sale completed.
| Former Beefeater | Place | Current evidence | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broomside Park | Durham | Queensway Inns now has a live venue page at the former Beefeater address, with current opening hours.Name matches the live Beefeater finder | |
| Carnon Inn | Truro | Named in the conditional Queensway transaction; successor name and date unpublished.Published sale list spells this “Cannon Inn” | |
| Great Yarmouth South Beach Road | Great Yarmouth | Matched to the Seafront Beefeater, now open as The Dunes.Likely the live finder’s Seafront listing | |
| Great Yarmouth Restaurant | Great Yarmouth | A separate published entry; its identity and outcome are not independently reconciled.Listed separately in the published sale schedule | |
| Griff House | Nuneaton | Queensway Inns now has a live venue page at the former Beefeater address, with current opening hours.Name matches the live Beefeater finder | |
| Moor Mill | Radlett | Queensway Inns now has a live venue page at the former Beefeater address, with current opening hours.Name matches the live Beefeater finder | |
| Morris Dancers | Scarisbrick / Ormskirk | Named in the conditional Queensway transaction; successor name and date unpublished.Name matches the live Beefeater finder | |
| Oyster Reach | Ipswich | Queensway Inns now has a live venue page at the former Beefeater address, with current opening hours.Name matches the live Beefeater finder | |
| Preston Brook | Runcorn | Queensway Inns lists the address as The Canal House, Chester Road, Runcorn, WA7 3BA, with current opening hours.Not visible in the 99-name live finder snapshot | |
| The Plough | Dover | Queensway Inns now has a live venue page at the former Beefeater address, with current opening hours.Name matches the live Beefeater finder | |
| Three Fish | Newport | Queensway Inns lists The Three Fish at Stafford Road, Newport, TF10 9BY, with current opening hours.Not visible in the 99-name live finder snapshot | |
| Twelve Bells | Gloucester | Queensway Inns lists Twelve Bells at Ermin Way, Gloucester, GL3 4SS, with current opening hours.Not visible in the 99-name live finder snapshot | |
| White Hart | Guestling / Hastings | Queensway Inns now has a live venue page at the former Beefeater address, with current opening hours.Name matches the live Beefeater finder | |
| The Longford Inn | Longford, Gloucester | Mapped to the former Beefeater at Tewkesbury Road, Longford, Gloucester, GL2 9BE—not Longford House in Cannock. No live Queensway venue page was found.Historic Beefeater at GL2 9BE; not Longford House, Cannock |
A separate planned handover
Two former Beefeaters are earmarked for M&B brands.
Mitchells & Butlers agreed to acquire seven Whitbread sites. The two former Beefeaters below were intended for either Miller & Carter or Toby Carvery, but reporting did not assign a format to each building. Until it does, this archive will not guess.
Read the transaction report ↗- The AlbertColchesterMiller & Carter or Toby Carvery · format not yet assigned
- The Cross HandsCheltenhamMiller & Carter or Toby Carvery · format not yet assigned
A living register
Dates are recorded, not predicted.
This page changes only when an operator, company statement, hospitality trade title or credible local report adds something material. “Under new ownership” does not mean “open”, and a proposed brand is not treated as a confirmed sign above the door.