Family-run, friendly 19th-century village free-house incorporating a comfortable breakfast room at the front and a public bar to the rear. The former features a large 1577 map of Staffordshire in a ceiling recess. The latter comprises a clear open area around the bar counter plus two adjacent small rooms. A narrow hallway accommodates a charity library and tourist information.

There is a secluded beer garden with picnic tables and a children's play area at the rear.

Fairly standard pub food with separate lunchtime, evening and Sunday lunch menus.

Events, music and otherwise, are advertised on boards outside the front door, in the public bar, and on Facebook.

There is a village link with Jane Austen who stayed at the rectory, then occupied by a cousin, for a few weeks in the summer of 1806.