A FIRE ripped through England cricket star Stuart Broad's pub today – with eight fire engines sent to tackle the blaze.
The Tap & Run in Upper Broughton, Notts., was left gutted after the inferno, which broke out shortly after 3am on Saturday.
Dramatic pictures show the award-winning pub engulfed in flames while thick plumes of smoke billow through the air.
The building is now in a state of complete ruin, with the Tap & Run's confirming it would not be trading "for the foreseeable future".
Speaking at the scene, Jonathan Wilson, station manager at Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue, told Nottingham Live: "We were mobilised to this building fire and we had eight appliances here and an aerial ladder platform.
"Swift action by the crews has contained the fire to the building but the building is quite badly damaged.
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"We are working to dampen it down and will probably be here doing that for the next couple of hours at least."
He added: "There was not believed to be anybody inside the building and the fire was contained to the building itself.
"Crews from Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire together have been working to deal with it.
"We are going to concentrate on putting the fire out – we are having a structural engineer have a look at the building as well to see if it is structurally safe, then there will be an investigation."
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The Tap and Run is owned by England cricketer Broad and the retired Harry Gurney.
It won Pub of the Year 2021 in Leicestershire as well as making it on to the Times list of the best places in Britain for Sunday lunch in 2022.
It's understood no-one was hurt or killed in the horror fire, which broke out on the first floor and roof of the building.
But a statement on the pub's website said today: "We are devastated to announce that due to a significant fire in the early hours of June 11th The Tap & Run will not be trading for the foreseeable future.
"We are so sorry that we cannot honour our bookings or take any further bookings.
"We will keep everyone fully up to date on social media over the next few weeks."
The Tap & Run went on to thank people for the "outpouring of support" and vowed "we will be back".
A spokeswoman for Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "The time of call was 3.22 this morning.
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"It's a public house premises and we have had eight engines in attendance, one aerial ladder platform, water carrier, command support vehicle.
"It was a building of two floors, 15 metres by 30 metres, the area of the building. The fire was in the first floor and roof. They have used two main jets and then two hose reel jets."
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