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A typical 1930s 'roadhouse' built to offer accommodation and meals to passing motorists, this one situated on the main road from South Yorkshire to the Lincolnshire coast and Humber ports (now the A18). It was designed by architects Scott & Clark of Wednesbury, but by the time it opened in 1940 the Second World War had started. It is situated in a part of Scunthorpe with the same name, which locally is pronounced the American way [Burk'ley, not Bark'ley]. I don't know whether the pub was named after the district, or vice-versa.

It no longer offers accommodation or meals, but is still open as a public house. Like many of Samuel Smith's pubs, it has been little altered over the years, any replacement fittings and furnishings being in the original style, for which reason CAMRA award it the maximum three stars as 'a pub interior of outstanding national historic importance', one of two such in Scunthorpe, the other being the Queen Bess on the other side of town SE9008 : The Queen Bess, Derwent Road, Scunthorpe.

The building is also nationally listed grade II (list entry 1426932). Reasons for being listed in 2015 include its architectural quality as a very good example of an inter-war roadhouse; its style influenced by Neo-Georgian, Moderne, Art Deco, and Oriental styles; for retaining its original plan, fittings and interior decorative scheme. See SE8711 : The Lounge Bar in the Berkeley for another contributor's interior photo.