Horse & Jockey, Rochdale

Two-storey corner pub of red brick still retaining three rooms.

The lobby has floor to ceiling tiling (quite common in Samuel Smiths pubs in the area) in mainly cream with Art Nouveau designs, and the floor is of black and white tiling with a mosaic ‘Horse and Jockey’. Through the inner door is the lino tiled hall with the servery in the rear right corner and opened-up to the rear left. The lobby bar has a counter that looks old with modern panels on the front. The bar back fitting is mostly modern with some new tiles. The rear left area has modern seating (wood backed) and has lost its fireplace.

The front left small room has a doorway, modern seating, a Sam Smiths replacement cast iron and tiled fireplace. The best room is the front right with a vestibule entrance and doorway in and out but retaining the panelling and good etched and frosted panels above and three top panels i.e. over the inner doorway. This room retains old fixed seating around most of the room with signs of bell pushes and re-leatheretted. It has a lino tiled floor and a pool table but has lost its fireplace. Some good etched and frosted exterior windows survive.