Description

The following buildings shall be added:

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

• Historic England Listing
• The Grapes Hotel, Liverpool Road, Eccles at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17747059

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