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The Paul Pry was situated at 1023 Lincoln Road. This pub closed in July 2024 to become the dining room of the neighbouring Premier Inn.

From Peterborough Heritage:

A distinctive inter-war public house built in the Neo-Elizabethan/Jacobean style which makes a positive contribution to the streetscape. Inter-war public houses form a specific typology of public house which met the changing social aspects of life in the 1920s and 1930s. Description: Two-storey detached building with basement constructed in brick in Flemish bond with sandstone dressings. The principal elevation has a symmetrical arrangement of a central projecting porch and two projecting end wings of painted brick, each with quoins and their own hipped roof. This arrangement is reminiscent of an E-plan house. All the windows are of mullioned, or transomed and mullioned form with moulded surrounds and leaded casements. A low plinth extends across the ground floor capped with stone and there is a moulded cornice with dentils below the eaves. The hipped roof is orientated east-west with peg-tiles. Four brick chimney stacks have been reduced in height. The building is set back from the main road with immediate environment comprising the public houses car park with various modern brick walls delineating an outside seating area. The central porch is in sandstone and retains a timber and glass door to the ground floor, which is a modern replacement. Above is a two-light window. The door sits within a modern porch with pitched roof constructed of timber with modern brick piers. The flanking sections are recessed and to the east there are two mullioned and transomed windows to the ground floor and two two-light mullioned windows above. To the west an eight-light mullioned and transomed window lights the ground floor and sits beneath a two-light mullioned window. Each projecting wing has a six-light window below a three-light window in a similar style as elsewhere. The wings were originally of exposed brick. To the east a single-storey side extension projects in brick and a hipped roof. The side elevation here is in brick with two lower four-light windows and two upper two-light examples flanking the chimney stack, which has a stone band. To the west several more apertures are in the same style and a second entrance can be seen. To the rear the public house has been extended with various modern ranges of differing roof forms, likely constituting the need for additional seating and food preparation areas inline with changing needs in the mid-late 20thC.

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