A miniature version of a popular Sussex watering hole is proving a hit with drinkers.

The metre-high model is to be given pride of place inside the Coach House pub and restaurant in Middle Street, Brighton, which inspired it.

Landlady Sara Rottner is delighted with the tiny pub, which was built by Brighton model-maker Colin Robinson. She said: "It is brilliant. It is the spitting image of this place."

The dolls house-like structure is highly detailed, although it's built to character rather than scale.

Mr Robinson, of Freshfield Street, Brighton, spent five weeks completing the model, with help from his artist wife Sukanya.

The finished version is packed with details from the Coach House and the Brighton streets which surround it.

Mr Robinson said: "My brief was to make a model of the Coach House within its setting in Brighton. It also had to be a little bit wacky.

Inside, the pub is filled with tiny tables and chairs and a perfectly-formed bar complete with pumps and optics.

There are even copies of the Argus and Leader newspapers, barely bigger than a 50p piece, lying on a table next to some half-written postcards and a cup of coffee.

Mr Robinson said: "I included the newspapers because they are very Brighton and the coffee is very typical of the Coach House. They do the most enormous cappuccinos and plates of cheesy chips. I also put in a miniature version of one of their menus.

"They have a lot of music in the pub so I put a figure of Elvis Presley emerging from the kitchen."

Outside, tables and chairs are arranged for summer drinkers, a dog waits patiently for its owner and teenagers loiter.

Everywhere you look within the model is another clever reference, either to the Coach House or Brighton itself.

Mr Robinson said: "I have included a pile of rubbish in a side lane next to the pub with some seagulls ripping it apart because seagulls are everywhere in Brighton and are a real pain.

"There is graffiti on the wall, which the owners asked me to put in because they are always having to wash it off."

Mr Robinson hopes the model will continue to fascinate pub-goers at the Coach House for many years to come.

He said: "I want it to be one of those things which people walk past then turn back to because something has caught their eye. I hope every time people look at it they will notice something different."