The Chainmaker And Attached Former Brewery

The Chainmaker and attached former brewery is a public house and brewery built around 1870. It features red brick construction with a grey engineering brick plinth and painted stone dressings, topped by a hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and brick lateral stacks. The building has a rectangular, almost square layout, with a central entrance lobby and bars serving a saloon on the left and a public bar on the right, along with a smoke room behind the public bar and a rear entrance and stair hall behind the central bar. The brewery is attached to the left side.

The exterior is two storeys high with a cellar and has a symmetrical three-bay front facing south. A flight of steps leads to a round-headed doorway, flanked by canted bay windows with colonnettes. The left bay includes a cellar doorway below, while the right bay features a round cast-iron ventilator for the cellar. On the first floor, there are three segmental-headed windows with moulded architraves and a cill band that continues along the side elevations, where similar first-floor windows are located. The ground floor windows have cornices with consoles and contain four-pane sashes. The rear wall is made of painted brick.

Inside, the public bar has a counter with a panelled front, large consoles, a bar back, and stained glass screens leading to the lobby and stair hall. The smoke room retains its original chimneypiece, while the saloon's bar counter has been replaced. All three rooms feature original benches against the walls. The stair hall at the rear has an elliptical arch with consoles and an open-tread staircase with stick balusters.

The attached brewery is a long, narrow, rectangular building made of red brick with a slate gable-ended roof. It has segmental arch doorways and windows, with the northeast wall's brickwork painted. The interior of the brewery has not been inspected.