Weaver Hotel, Runcorn

Rebuilt in 1908 for Greenall Whitley, this multi-roomed pub was subject to an impressive refurbishment in 200X which won it a CAMRA / English Heritage Award. On the left is the public bar with a vestibule entrance, original fixed seating and the screened bar counter here is reported to the original but customers say it was square at the corner but is now curved!. Opened-up to the rear with the letter 'E' above is a room with more original fixed seating, a good (original?) tiled, cast-iron and good wood surround fireplace with a mirror in the mantelpiece. A door to the public bar to the lounge has a letter 'A' on it. The exterior has a disused door between the public bar and the lounge so it looks like there was an off sales here originally. On the right the saloon bar has a good vestibule with some stained and leaded glass. The original counter was replaced in the 1970s by one at right angles to the present counter, which is a copy of the public bar one added by Oakwell Brewery this century.

On the right is a passage with a modern but good tiled floor and there are three more rooms. On the front right is the lounge with the letter 'B' on the door in a screen, which may well be work of 200X. The fixed seating is the original, as is the Edwardian tiled, cast iron and good wood surround fireplace with a mirror in the mantelpiece. Note the good colourful stained and leaded lower window panels. Next on the right is the library, a narrow room with the letter 'C' on the door. Opposite is an open staircase with fielded panelling on the passage side. From here the passage retains a splendid dado of tiles in shades of brown with grapes motifs. These continue into the gents which has an old tiled floor and what looks like 1930s tiled walls. At the rear right is a room with the letter 'D' on the door and it is the home to a full sized snooker table.