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ECCLES LIVERPOOL ROAD SJ 79 NE (south-east side) 1481-/4/10002 no. 431 (Grapes Hotel) II

Public house with the date 1903 over entrance; by Mr Newton of Hartley, Hacking & Co.; Red brick with red terracotta dressings, slate roof with red ridge tiles. Rectangular plan on corner site. Jacobean style. Two storeys and cellars, 4 unequal bays with gabled bay to left and splayed corner to right. Mullion and transom windows with hoodmoulds; at ground floor gabled bay has a canted bay window; narrow recessed 2nd bay has Jacobean style porch with pedimented parapet containing a shield with the date 1903; 3rd bay has an 8-light window with terracotta panels over; splayed comer has Jacobean-style entrance to vault. Right hand return in similar style with C20 flat-roofed extension and a wide, canted bay window to the billiard room at the rear. INTERIOR: plan with some alteration and original fittings. Entrance lobby with door to vault to right, ahead a mahogany screen with glazed panels and overlights and a door with cut and etched glass with vine designs and the words 'Grapes Hotel'. Hall with dado of green glazed Art Nouveau tiles which continues up the stairwell, elaborate mahogany Jacobean-style stair, elaborate bar with brilliant cut glass hatches and overlights. Rooms generally have Jacobean style door surrounds, doors with cut and etched glass with the words "BAR PARLOUR", "SMOKE ROOM" etc., lobby screen and Jacobean style fireplaces, some original fixed upholstered seating, but smoke room has been altered. Billiard room has seating on raised platforms and a Jacobean style chimneypiece. Vault has simple fixed seating and a panelled lobby with internal door which has cut and etched glass as before. Meeting room upstairs with exposed roof timbers and an original fireplace.

Listing NGR: SJ7589598041

External Links

• The Grapes Hotel at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17747059

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