Bridge Hotel, Horwich

Imposing three-storey pub of red brick and terracotta on a corner site rebuilt around 1900 with good decoration in stone on the ground floor. It retains a largely intact plan of lobby bar and three (originally four) rooms and many original fittings including colourful dado tiling. The entrance lobby on the right has a Victorian tiled dado now painted over in brown and inner twin doors in a floor to ceiling screen. There is a large island bar but it is only some ten or so years old. An open plan on the street side has new fixed seating but old draught screen with a stained glass panel in the top. The dado panelling in the left area is old indicating two rooms at the front in the past - what is a door on the exterior is now a window.

The main left-hand entrance lobby has a Victorian dado tiling (now painted brown) and a twin inner door in a full-height screen. A passage runs to the staircase at the rear and has a dado of colourful Victorian tiling which continues up the stairs. The front left small pool room has a doorway, bare wood floor and retains the original bench seating all around and some bell-pushes, and has a black painted wood surround fireplace (now blocked).

Further down the passage a doorway on the left leads to another small room with fixed seating in four semi-circular bays - two each side - with carved arms, also a good marble surround fireplace with a modern interior. The tiling continues around the walls to the toilets at the rear right and to the right-hand entrance lobby. The front-right small room has a doorway, original fixed seating, a wood-surround fireplace painted black but now blocked. Apart from this room, all others have a decorative cornice. The tiling is in dull yellow and patterned relief tiles in alternate claret and dark green topped by a row of relief tiles with a circular pattern.