Crooked Billet, Worsthorne

Rebuilt in 1911 by the local Grimshaw Brewery, the layout of a lobby around a screened servery and four rooms off is little changed. Dado tiling in the entrance lobby. Terrazzo floor around servery and in the front right (called the 'Glass House'?) it has tiling on the counter front and dado tiling on walls in front section. other bar counter fronts have fielded panelling. There is an opened-up room at the rear right with a 1920s stone fireplace and fielded panelled walls, the fixed seating looks inter-war. 'Ladies' etched panel in door. Opened-up / wide doorway to the tap room at the rear left (in c.2000?) where the fixed seating looks more Edwardian and there is a good wood surround but new tiles and interior fireplace. There were cupboards where the door to the tap room was.

Wide doorway on the front left into the dining room where the fixed seating is possibly inter-war, but looks more post-war and there is a 1950/60s stone fireplace. The impressive servery has intact rising panels on the lobby side but has lost all but one in the front bar. The counter top is a copper one all the way around it. Note the 'bar' deep etched panel in a closed position. One door has a 'No 2' deep-etched panel in it. Excellent 'Grimshaw's Ales & Stout', 'Crooked Billet', 'Grimshaw's, and 'Wine & Spirits' windows at the rear. The toilets have been modernised but the passage to gents' has dado tiling and a etched and frosted panel declaring 'food' in the door from the lobby bar. Ideally we need to see some plans - it maybe that the rear right opening up took place in the 1930s?