Converted 1/6/2022 to retail premises, prior to planning approval. Closed 10/9/2021. Planning application 133158/FO/2022 | Change of use of ground floor from public house (sui generis) to retail store (Class E). Granted retrospectively 5/7/2023. History: was a very large corner-sited ex-Whitbread house. It had a central bar around which the drinking spaces radiated. It would have benefitted from its proximity to many places of employment in the era in which it operated. It did sell cask beers (Chesters Bitter in the 1990s) for many years, but then sales declined too much to sustain.