The Rising Sun, Mitchell Hill
THE RISING SUN
Above: the two halves of the ground floor pulled off the seam. That is how the building reads on an afternoon when the room is let and the bar is open at the same time.
We are one pub at one address. The company is DCK HOSPITALITY LIMITED, incorporated on 18 August 2026, and the registered office is this building — Rising Sun, Mitchell Hill, Truro, TR1 1ED. There is no head office anywhere else. Post addressed to the office comes through the front door with everything else and sits behind the bar until somebody opens it.
The house splits on a diagonal. Push the front door and the bar runs away from you along the right-hand wall. Go the other way, up two steps and along the landing, and you are in the function room. That seam is what we work around all day: the room can be let to you while the bar trades as normal, and the hatch cut through the seam wall lets one of us serve both sides without anybody crossing the other's floor.
Cellar work, eight until opening
The cellar is under the bar side, down the hatch behind the counter, and that is where the day starts. Nobody is served anything until the cellar has been read, and the order never changes, because a cellar done in a different order every morning is a cellar that gets missed on a busy Saturday.
- Eight
- Down the hatch. Thermometer read and the figure written in the cellar book. Shives and keystones checked for weeping; anything damp is wiped, dated and watched for the rest of the week.
- Nine
- Lines. A short pull off every line that is on, to waste, tasted standing at the counter. A cask that has gone past itself overnight comes off then, not at six with a full room.
- Half ten
- Glass. Out of the washer, racked upside down, polished, counted against what went in the night before. Breakages go on the same sheet as the ullage, so the two figures read together at the end of the week.
- Quarter to eleven
- The board comes off its hook and is written in chalk for what is drinking well that day, not for what we would like to shift. If a cask is on its last night, the board says so.
None of that belongs on a website. A board written at quarter to eleven on a Tuesday is wrong by Thursday, and a list of beers printed here would be a list we could not keep honest. The cellar page sets out how the cellar is kept and how a line is changed. What is on the three handpumps this lunchtime, you ask at the bar, and whoever is on will pour you a taste first.
Midday on the bar side
Lunchtime belongs to the bar side and to the people who walk up the hill for it. The counter takes six at a push, there are two tables in the window where the light is, and the snug past the fireplace holds eight if the party is friendly and four if it is not. The fire is a real one, lit from the back end of the year onward, so it takes until about one o'clock to be worth sitting next to.
We are a local first and would rather stay one. The stool at the end of the counter stays free for whoever usually has it. Dogs come in and lie on the flags. The papers live on the end of the bar and go back there. Nobody is moved off a table they are still using.
A window table can be held back for a lunch if you ring the morning before. We will not hold the whole bar side for a party: that is where the regulars drink. A party that wants its own floor wants the function room, which is what the room is there for.
Across the seam: the function room
Afternoon is when the room gets set. Tables come off the stack at the far end and go out in whatever shape the booking book says you asked for, the floor is swept, the chairs are counted, and the hatch stays shut until you want it open. Nothing is put up on the walls by us. If the room is wanted for the evening, that work happens between about two and four, which is the quietest stretch of the day on the bar side.
Before you ring, it helps to have a figure in your head. The arithmetic below is what we do on the back page of the booking book when somebody asks what the room will take: a floor area, an allowance off it for what has to be left clear and for people getting past each other, then a figure per person for the shape you want. Put your own measurements in and every step is shown, not just an answer.
Evening, and the walk down the hill
From six the bar side fills from the bottom of the hill upward. The board is read out loud more often than it is read off the wall, which is the point of keeping it short: three pumps, three answers, and whoever is on can tell you what each one is doing tonight rather than reciting a list.
Last orders are called once, at the counter, loud enough for the snug. Glass goes through the washer while the room empties, the fire is damped, the cellar hatch is bolted from above, and the lines are left for the morning rather than rushed at midnight. If the room has been out, the tables go back on the stack that same night.
Then there is the hill. Mitchell Hill is steep enough that people notice it going up and remember it coming down, and the pavement narrows outside the door. There is no car park and never has been, and we would rather say so here than have you drive up and turn round. The finding us page draws the approaches, including the flatter way round.
The seam, drawn out
Here is the ground floor flat, with the seam on it. It is not to scale and it is not a fire plan. It is the sketch we draw on the back of a beer mat when somebody asks how the room can be private while the pub is open.
- Bar side of the seam
- Front door, counter along the right-hand wall, three handpumps, the fireplace and the snug behind it, two window tables, the cellar hatch. Open to anybody who walks in, booking or no booking.
- Room side of the seam
- Two steps up, the landing, one door into the room, the table stack at the far end, the hatch cut through the seam wall. Yours for the hours written in the book, and nobody else comes through that door while it is.
- The hatch itself
- Shut by default. Opened only if the booking asked for it, so drinks for the room are poured on the bar side and handed through instead of carried the long way round. Shut again when the room is done.
The office is the pub
These are the registered facts, and they are the only facts about the company worth a page. The office address is the pub, so the office is open when the pub is.
- Registered name
- DCK HOSPITALITY LIMITED
- Company number
- 17407606
- D-U-N-S number
- 235087220
- Registered office
- Rising Sun, Mitchell Hill, Truro, TR1 1ED, United Kingdom
- Jurisdiction
- England & Wales
- Incorporated
- 18 August 2026
- SIC code
- 56302 — public houses and bars
- Written to
- house@dckhospitality.info, read behind the bar, usually in the afternoon
What this site keeps, and what the booking book behind the bar keeps, is set out on the house notices page. There is no form on this website and nothing is counted here; the address and the email above are the whole of it.