This is a picturesque Cheshire brick building set back from the road, with outside seating at the entrance and a large beer garden at the back. Inside there are five small rooms, with different styles of décor, each with an open fire. The room in which the bar is situated is very small with seats for only about a dozen, which makes it very cosy in winter when the real fire is lit. it is patronised by the local cricket and football teams after matches and an encouragement to horse riders is the recent provision of mounting steps in the car park!
All Macclesfield-Knusford buses 88 pass the door.
Note: Samuel Smith have a blanket ban on the use of mobile phones and other digital devices in their pubs.
One star - A pub interior of special national historic interest
Listed status: Not listed
A brick-built village pub with no less than six small rooms which have extensive parquet flooring and inter-war firpelaces. The entrance lobby has seating on either side. A passage runs to the public bar in the heart of the pub (bar fittings replaced in the early 2000s). At the rear right is the small tap room with a red quarry-tiled floor and service via a very small, recently replaced counter. Left are two more small rooms, now linked by a wide gap. The front one has a partition wall to the passage: that at the rear contains settle seating. Right of the passage is the lounge, larger than the other rooms, with a couple of settles (the counter seems a recent replacement). Far right there is door marked ‘Private but brought into use at busy times.
Brick-built village pub still retaining six small rooms. The exterior lobby has seating on either side. A passage with a parquet floor, fielded panelling to picture frame height on the right hand wall and a partition wall on the left with a row of frosted glazed panels along the top runs from the front door to the public bar in the centre of the pub. This small room has a parquet floor, a 1930s brick fireplace with log fire, a couple of settles but the bar fittings were replaced in the early 2000s.
At the rear right is the small tap room which has a red quarry-tiled floor, another inter-war brick fireplace with a log fire, fixed bench seating on two sides but service is via a recently replaced small bar counter almost a hatch. On the left are two more small rooms now almost joined together by a wide gap. The front one with the partitioned wall to the passage and an old latch door has a carpet over a parquet floor and another 1930s brick fireplace. The rear one has a parquet floor, a 1930s brick fireplace and settle seating.
To the right of the passage is the lounge, a room that is much larger than the others with a part parquet floor, another 1930s brick fireplace, two settles and a small counter where the front looks a recent replacement. At the far right there is door with ‘Private; on the door which is the sixth room and brought into use when the pub is busy. It has a parquet floor and another different 1930s brick fireplace.
This Pub serves no changing beers and 1 regular beer.
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