Would you buy a village house if...............

Salz

What you also have to remember is that pubs can be sold - it may be a "gastro pub" at the moment, but if they aren't making any money, it will be sold/ turned into something more profitable. This may not be as quiet.
Secondly, have you any knowledge of the village? Is it a friendly village or a "you're not local so I'm not going to serve you in my shop" type village?

neverdespairgirl

Not a village fancier myself, but the garden sounds fine to me.

People who are going to buy Grade II listed are always aware, or should be, that there's a significant inconvenience factor involved most of the time. My parents' village house in mid-rural Kent is Grade II - built in the 1490s, and originally 2 houses. The first floor is divided, and to get from one part to the other, you need to go downstairs, through the kitchen, breakfast room and living room and up more stairs. The smaller part of the first floor has no loo, so you go down (lethal) stairs, and through the living room and breakfast room to get to the bathroom. And the ceilings are bang-your-head height in a lot of it, too.

Despite this, people are always panting to buy houses in the street, even though they're all awkward.