Architecture
It is a timber-framed building at the front and partly timber framed and partly brick at the back. The roofs are of stone flags. The building has three storeys with four gables on the front elevation. On the right hand side of the building is a carriage arch. Inside are three Jacobean fireplaces, a priest hole oak panelling and an original oak baluster staircase. In the 18th century an extension was added to accommodate the horses of the Liverpool to Lichfield Coach. Some believe that a tunnel leads from the building to the church across the road. As High Street was considerably altered in the 19th century, this is highly unlikely.
The building has had many uses over the years from being originally a coaching inn, pub and restaurant and more recently a hotel. Since July 2011, it has been trading as a pub restaurant operated by Brunning and Price, a Chester-based pub group specialising in the restoration of historic buildings and their conversion into characterful pubs.
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