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GREATER MANCHESTER - Altrincham, Railway

National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors Part One

153 Manchester Road, Broadheath, Altrincham, WA14 5NT

Tel: 0161 941 3383

Public Transport: Metro: Navigation Road

Listed Status: Grade II

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A small, unpretentious little Victorian pub now looking like the last link with tradition against a vast phalanx of out-of-town-shopping stores behind. It was saved from demolition by its Grade II-listed status, the listing being the result of the pub's special character as a rare, multi-room pub. As you go in there is a room each side ('Tap Room' left, 'Bar Parlour' right as it tells you in the cut and etched glass in the doors). Both these rooms have fixed seating and bell-pushes. Then on to a small drinking lobby with a curved seat and the counter itself. Note that the gantry atop the counter and the left-hand part of the counter are modern additions.

The pub has expanded at the rear but this does not destroy the historic core. The first room was formerly the domestic kitchen and has a fine stone floor: the door proclaiming 'Vault' confuses until you know that it was brought in from another pub! Behind this room is an eating area and, outside, a patio drinking area.