The Carlton Tavern

The Carlton Tavern is a public house built in the 1920s for Walkers Warrington Brewery. It features a combination of brick and stucco with a grey-green slate roof, showcasing Neo Georgian and Art Deco styles. The building is two storeys high and has a double fronted design.

The entrance includes a semicircular portico with half-column responds and two columns of Delian style, along with an architrave, frieze, and cornice. It has a blue brick plinth and small-pane doors. There are two bow windows supported by quarter-sphere corbels, each consisting of three rows of three curved panes below a transom and one row above, with simple friezes and hoods. Below three casement windows with two 8-pane lights each, there is a decorated stucco band and iron lattice window-boxes. The building also features shutters, two symmetrically placed iron rainwater pipes and heads, a frieze, and a dentil cornice.

To the left, there is a short one-storey wing with a wall that descends in a volute shape to the yard wall. The building has two approximately symmetrically placed chimneys. On the right side facing Hartington Street, there is a rectangular porch with two columns and double doors made of small panes above a fielded panel. This side also has two broad bow windows, and the upper storey is detailed similarly to the front, with two casements. A wrought-iron bracket supports a corner sign.

Inside, the licensed rooms are arranged around a panelled central bar, featuring a panelled dado, consoles to the lintels, and ceiling cornices, along with likely original light fittings and roses. The interior is largely intact and represents a good and complete example of an inter-war pub.