Primrose, Liscard

A little-altered stone-built pub of 1923 with half-timbered first floor and containing some very elaborate plasterwork ceilings. Doors from the street lead to the lobby bar area with a passage running down the rear of the servery and with three rooms leading off. The car park entrance vestibule originally had doors leading to the right i.e. the front lobby bar area and another door to the rear of the lobby bar so a partition has been lost – look for the markings on the counter showing where it was. The counter and bar-back fitting (with leaded glass panels) are original.

Off the rear lobby is an opened-up area in the rear right part of the pub (as viewed from the street). It retains original fixed seating, fielded panelling to picture frame height and bell-pushes. Above this area and the lobby are four oblong sections of ceiling with very decorative plasterwork in yellow with detail picked out in green and claret.

At the very rear there is a wide arch which looks looks original as it closely matches the one over the fireplace and the rear room is completely fielded panelled to picture frame height. It was an inglenook style fireplace of inter-war bricks, bell pushes, another four sections of plasterwork ceiling as before and original seating around the room. On the ‘beams’ between the ceiling sections is a decorative strip of grapes and acanthus leaves – is it of wood or wood imitation.

On the front right is a room also with fielded panelling but the licensee says this was originally an off-sales shop. The fixed seating does look more like post-war as it is very different to that elsewhere and the baffles are quite plain and even bell pushes have been added. The room is served from a doorway with flap to the back of the servery. Exterior brick and wood porch. Good stained and leaded windows.