Accessibility

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Wheelchair access

Doggett's has a lift to all floors, and a radar-key wheelchair-accessible toilet on the ground floor. Although two of the session rooms and the balcony have steps leading to them, we and the venue have portable wheelchair ramps to allow access to them.

That's the good news.

The bad news is that wheelchair access is still fairly awkward. Known issues are:

• Access to the venue is via a passage at the back which is frequently blocked by vehicles, and which also contains rubbish bins. There is no step-free access from the side of Doggetts which faces onto the Thames path.
• There is a small step from the passage to get to the terrace at the back of the pub. This step is about 1.5m wide, and slopes from 2cm to 13cm, so while it's not that high, it's awkward to negotiate.
• The lift isn't wide enough to accommodate powered wheelchairs - the doors are 30 inches (76cm) wide.
• All doors are manual, and some are fairly heavily sprung.

We'd apologise for these limitations, but feel that it's best to be candid about them.

There's a video showing how to get to Doggetts on YouTube, which shows the passage at the back of the pub, among other views of the area around it.

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