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Operator: Toby Carvery (Mitchells & Butlers)
Crompton Way, Bolton, BL1 8TJ (View on Google Map)
(01204) 591798
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  • Outstanding pub conversion

Large imposing pub in its own grounds where the emphasis is on dining in impressive surroundings (see photos). Bar opens at 11am. The handpumps have been removed.
Historic England : Historical Information

Historic Interest

Grade II listed building.

Information for this venue is provided by the Bolton Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
Bolton District (B)
Last updated
28/06/2025
Last surveyed
28/06/2025
Leasehold owner
unknown
Freehold owner
Mitchells & Butlers
Pub ID
BOL/094
Asset of Community Value

Gentleman's country house, now public house and restaurant. 1880-6. Designed by JJ Bradshaw and John Gass of Bolton and Manchester for Herbert and Thomas Thwaites (successive heads of Eden and Thwaites, bleachers); decoration and furnishings by Messrs. Goodall and Co. of Manchester. Tudor Gothic style. To the extreme left, standing well forward and linked to the house by a low corridor containing garden entrance, the single-storey billiards room under hipped room. INTERIOR: well preserved hall with arched recess and pointed arched partition with clustered marble shafts at foot of Imperial stairs with oak turned balusters and carved panels and knotchboard. Similar arcaded partition to landing; lantern with coving and ornamental leaded glazing. Most ground-floor rooms contain good features: notable are the fireplace with de Morgan tiles and wooden surround and overmantel to dining room, the elaborate inglenook to drawing room, the fitted cupboards, coving and overmantel to breakfast room, and the plaster and pitch-pine panelled ceilings; the billiard room (illustrated in Franklin) has a queen post roof supporting a central lantern with decorative painted glazing to side panels, 3-bay marbled arched to dais at north end (originally intended to contain an organ), pine dado, coved recess and Jacobethan fire surround - very elaborate but typical of a well-appointed gentleman's house of this period.

Gentleman's country house, now public house and restaurant. 1880-6. Designed by JJ Bradshaw and John Gass of Bolton and Manchester for Herbert and Thomas Thwaites (successive heads of Eden and Thwaites, bleachers); decoration and furnishings by Messrs. Goodall and Co. of Manchester. Tudor Gothic style. To the extreme left, standing well forward and linked to the house by a low corridor containing garden entrance, the single-storey billiards room under hipped room. INTERIOR: well preserved hall with arched recess and pointed arched partition with clustered marble shafts at foot of Imperial stairs with oak turned balusters and carved panels and knotchboard. Similar arcaded partition to landing; lantern with coving and ornamental leaded glazing. Most ground-floor rooms contain good features: notable are the fireplace with de Morgan tiles and wooden surround and overmantel to dining room, the elaborate inglenook to drawing room, the fitted cupboards, coving and overmantel to breakfast room, and the plaster and pitch-pine panelled ceilings; the billiard room (illustrated in Franklin) has a queen post roof supporting a central lantern with decorative painted glazing to side panels, 3-bay marbled arched to dais at north end (originally intended to contain an organ), pine dado, coved recess and Jacobethan fire surround - very elaborate but typical of a well-appointed gentleman's house of this period.

General information about historic pub interiors

Conversion

A Grade II-listed building from the 1880s that is a jaw-dropping conversion of a mill-owner’s mansion to create a large, imposing pub in its own grounds. It was converted into a restaurant in the 1990s but keeping a well-preserved interior. The hall has a staircase and an impressive lantern; a number of ground floor rooms have grand fireplaces and there is a high-ceilinged billiards room.

General information about outstanding conversions and restorations
Monday
8:00am - 10:00pm
Tuesday
8:00am - 10:00pm
Wednesday
8:00am - 10:00pm
Thursday
8:00am - 10:00pm
Friday
8:00am - 10:00pm
Saturday
8:00am - 10:00pm
Sunday
8:00am - 10:00pm
Monday
8:00am - 10:00pm
Tuesday
8:00am - 10:00pm
Wednesday
8:00am - 10:00pm
Thursday
8:00am - 10:00pm
Friday
8:00am - 10:00pm
Saturday
8:00am - 10:00pm
Sunday
8:00am - 10:00pm
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Facilities
Lunchtime Meals Lunchtime Meals
Also Breakfasts from 8 am to 11 am (10.30) Sun
Evening Meals Evening Meals
Garden Garden
Family Friendly Family Friendly
Disabled Access Disabled Access
Parking Parking
Function Room Function Room
Separate Bar Separate Bar
Smoking Smoking
Wi Fi Wi Fi
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Transport
Close to bus routes
525 (Bolton Interchange Clockwise Circular via Halliwell Road), 527 (Bolton Interchange Anti-Clockwise Circular via Tonge Moor Road)
Nearby Station (850m)
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