Kettering pub customers left in the dark as as windows boarded up and gate barred
Customers of The Piper in Kettering have been left without their local after the pub in Windmill Avenue was sealed with metal shutters.
The pub was sealed with metal shutters on Wednesday (June 3), windows and doors boarded up and yellow security warnings placed on the exterior of the building.
Punters were welcomed back through the doors of the ‘community’ pub at the start of April last year.
But regulars reported they had been left in the dark for several weeks after the electricity was switched off in the bar lounge and the games room lounge.
At the start of her management of the pub, the most recent landlady told the Northants Telegraph she planned ‘beer, bar snacks, sport and Sunday roasts’.
According to customers, the pub had been relying on bottle and can sales and there had been issues with plumbing in one of the pub’s toilets.
The Piper had been run for more than 33 years by Garth Coward and his wife Sue, but they left the business in May 2023.
Temporary managers had been employed to manage the pub but at the end of February 2025 regulars found the doors shut.
The Piper is split into a lounge bar and a second bar room for darts and pool.
There is a fully equipped trade kitchen and a beer garden located on a private grassed area.
Owners Stonegate Group Pub Partners has been contacted for a statement.