The Definitive Guide to the History of
Pubs and Beerhouses in Coventry

Drinking in an Old English Town

Scireborne, Eastern Green Lane

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1850	1924	BEERHOUSE
	1851	1989	UNICORN
	1989	2013	SCIREBORNE TAVERN
	2013	present	UNICORN
This is an old spelling of the local river, the Sherbourne. In 1989 the UNICORN in Eastern Green was renamed the Scireborne. From 1850 to 1924 this was the BEERHOUSE, Lower Eastern Green, although on a map of 1888 it is named as The Unicorn public house. It was a cottage on Unicorn Lane. The Wills family, early licensees, were cordwainers, who ran the beerhouse as something of a sideline. In 1937 the new Unicorn was started opposite the old one. However, due to the intervention of the war it remained a shell. The roof was on but the floorboards had not been put in. It was completed after the war but did not open to business until 1954. The original Unicorn reverted to being a private residence and still stands to this day opposite the new pub and called 'Unicorn Cottage'. The new Unicorn is an imposing mock Tudor structure, surrounded by trees that screen it and its grounds from the road.