Some pundits have said that The Golden Cross in the centre of Cardiff "has the most spectacular pub interior in the whole of Wales".
The pub, which is also listed on CAMRA's national inventory of historic pub interiors, was refurbished in 2007.
Disregard for the individual qualities of pub interiors can be fatal.
Historic pub interiors, as well as pub exteriors, are vital and irreplaceable elements of our cultural and social heritage.
Yet a proper compartmentalisation of pub interiors means real choice for customers.
Not only are the pub interiors themselves of the nondescript, open-plan kind, but the barn to the rear has been wholly mutilated.
Someone happened to be carrying a large container of liquid in the passage, from a pub interior to one of the tables overlooking the walkway.
In the last two decades many pub interiors have been opened up into single spaces, which some people regret as it loses the flexibility, intimacy and traditional feel of a multi-roomed public house.
The village pub, the Fox Inn, is a substantially unaltered 18th century building, with a front room listed on CAMRA's register of nationally important pub interiors.
The pub building, built in 1835, is a survivor of the wartime bombing of the area, and retains a traditional pub interior.