A Hampshire watering hole has been put up for sale by pub giant Wetherspoons.
The Lord Arthur Lee in Fareham has become the latest pub the chain has decided to offload, just months after The Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis in Ocean Village changed hands.
The boozer, on West Street, was previously a Co-op and was named after a former MP for Fareham.
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Wetherspoon spokesman Eddie Gershon said: “ The Lord Arthur Lee is up for sale, however, it will continue to trade as normal until it is sold.
“Wetherspoon does, on occasion, put some of its pubs up for sale, and this is the case here.”
The latest sale is thought to be a commercial decision by the UK's largest pub chain, which operates around 800 sites.
The 9,129sqft pub is being marketed at £400,000 by estate agent Savills.
The Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, now reopened under new ownership as The King Canute, was one of 39 JD Wetherspoon pubs put up for sale last year.
At the time, the group's chairman Tim Martin said that the pub industry would 'inevitably shrink'.
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