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LANCASHIRE - Stacksteads, Commercial National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors Part One Newchurch Road, Stacksteads, Bacup, OL13 0UJ Tel: 01706 878325 Listed Status: Not listed View this pub on a local map
CURRENTLY CLOSED. At the end of a Victorian terrace, this is a largely unaltered, traditional drinkers' pub. The layout is characteristically northern - as you enter (through doors with the initials MBB for Massey's Burnley Brewery) you come into a drinking lobby in front of the serving area slightly to the right. There are three other rooms which are accessed from the lobby, all of which retain their bell-pushes for table service which were certainly working in 2004 and may still do so. The bell-box with its indicators still survives in the lobby. At the front left is the commercial room (with Victorian fixed seating) and on the right the tap room. The most impressive room is the smoke room, found at the rear off the tiled corridor which leads right from the lobby. It has a fine wood and glazed screen between it and the servery with a door and flap for service. It also has an upholstered fixed bench, etched windows and is, in all, a splendid survivor. The plan and much of the fittings seem Victorian but there is also an interwar imprint, e.g. the tiled fireplace in the tap room and tiling and plasterwork decoration in the friezes.
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