Stables At The Boars Head Public House

The stables at the Boar's Head public house, built around 1900, originally served the adjacent pub and are now used as a gymnasium and store. The structure is made of red brick, with Accrington brick used around the openings and to define the gables. It features a Welsh slated roof and has an 'L' shape, with a long stable range facing the street and a shorter service wing at a right angle. The building is two storeys high.

On the courtyard side, there is a ramp leading to the first floor, with a raked sidewall and a setted ramp floor. The stable range has two ground floor door openings and three first floor openings, which now contain late 20th-century window frames. There is brick banding above the ground floor openings and linking the first floor cills. The street-facing elevation has blocked ventilator openings with segmental arched heads and sloping cills on both storeys, as well as taller openings at the end bays on the ground floor and a corner chimneystack on the right-hand end.

The service range includes a full-width vehicle doorway on the ground floor and a taking-in doorway to the first floor set below a blind gablet, with a window opening to the left. Inside, the space has been altered and fittings removed, but it retains blue brick paving on the ground floor and features queen strut roof trusses with extended principal rafters. This building is a rare example of multi-storeyed stabling, typically found in urban areas where single-storey stables would have been more expensive. Despite its alterations, it remains closely linked to the commercial premises it served and reflects the continued use of horse-drawn transport in the early 20th century.