The Britons Protection Ph The Britons Protection Public House

The Britons Protection is a public house located on Great Bridgewater Street in Manchester. It was built in the early 19th century and underwent internal remodeling around 1930. The building is constructed of red brick, with the ground floor painted and the upper sections roughcast and whitened. It has a slate roof and features a double depth plan with added rear wings. The front of the pub has a long bar that runs parallel to the street, with a corridor and additional rooms behind.

The exterior is three stories high with cellars beneath. It has a symmetrical facade, featuring doorways at both ends and in the center, all framed by pilastered jambs with decorative foliate capitals. There are two pairs of windows with altered glazing above the doorways, accompanied by a plain fascia board with foliate consoles at the ends and a cornice above. The upper floors are adorned with simple pilasters at the corners, which stop below the top of the parapet. Each upper floor has two tripartite sash windows and a central four-pane sash window on the second floor, all with moulded architraves. The first-floor windows are taller and have cornices on consoles, while the central window on the second floor features a floating cornice. The high parapet is stepped up over the center. The rear of the building has most windows altered.

Inside, the pub retains much of its 1930 remodeling, including an ornate Lincrusta ceiling in the front bar and a panelled bar front with a late 20th-century superstructure. A corridor from the left-hand entrance turns at right angles behind the servery, and the bar back has glazed sash windows for service in the corridor area. There is another corridor with a tiled dado leading to the toilet area at the rear. The back rooms feature fixed seating and bell pushes, along with contemporary fireplaces. A dog-leg staircase with barley-sugar balusters leads to the upper floors, and the toilets are finished with white glazed bricks from around 1930. The pub has been known as 'The Britons Protection' since 1820, and its interior character is largely defined by the 1930 remodeling, which remains largely intact.