The Smoker Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1959. A C17 Public house. 3 related planning applications.

The Smoker Inn

WRENN ID
frozen-cloister-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 March 1959
Type
Public house
Address
The Smoker Inn, Manchester Road, Plumley, WA16 0TY
OS grid reference
SJ 710 760
Coordinates
53.28077, -2.43617
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Smoker Inn is a public house that dates back to the 17th century, with additions and alterations made in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of rendered and whitewashed brick, topped with a roof made of stone slate and thatch. It stands two storeys high.

The entrance front features a projecting wing to the right of the centre, which may have originally served as a porch. This wing has a decorative brick band made of three bricks in depth that runs between the floors. On the gable end of the wing, there are 19th-century windows on both the ground and first floors. To the left of the projecting wing, there is a 19th-century doorway and two 20th-century bow windows that are supported by brackets. A 19th-century outshut is located at the far left of the building. The first floor has three 20th-century casement windows. The roof is adorned with one late 17th-century chimney at the ridge and two 19th-century chimneys. To the right of the wing, there are two 20th-century three-light casement windows on the ground floor, along with one two-light window on the first floor.

Local climate

The Smoker Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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