Traders Taphouse, Chorley

Victorian brick two and three storey corner pub, possibly an old coaching inn, that retains much of its north western layout of a passage around the servery, three rooms off and a small public bar in the street corner surrounded by the servery. The very small L-shaped public bar retains a Victorian counter with the front recently painted purple but the pot shelf is modern, also some old dado panelling and some new. The two sided Victorian counter in the passage is topped with another modern pot shelf. On the Clifford Street side is a small room separated from the passageway to the toilets by a floor to ceiling glazed partition. The room has a bare wood floor, old fixed seating with some panelling above recently painted a dull green colour, a c1920s fireplace with a modern cast-iron interior and there is old dado panelling on the passage across from the room.

Near an open staircase is another small room off the corner of the lobby bar. It has more old fixed seating but most of the dado panelling looks modern as does the small cast-iron fireplace; all woodwork painted a fawn colour. At the rear left is another room with a small piece of old curved fixed seating, old dado panelling but the brick fireplace looks modern. The room on the right on Hollingsworth Street side has more old fixed seating but the room has been opened-up to the lobby and the brick fireplace is modern. Upstairs is a function room with a figure '6' on the door which has a 1960s bar counter and old cast-iron and wood surround fireplace. Note the carved architrave above doorways. A number of holes have been cut into walls and windows added in recent years 'for supervision'.