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Great Bridgewater Street, MANCHESTER, M1 5JG

Peveril of the Peak public house in Manchester.

Grade 2 listed building. This simple, two-storey mid-Victorian building was remodelled about 1900 and given a ceramic facing. On the ground floor it is yellowy-green, and above the orange name band it is cream. The fascia wording of 'Peveril Of The Peak' on two sides and 'Wines & Spirits' on the end of the building were covered by Wilsons Brewery standard signage until removed in the 1980s. The internal porches on both sides have fancy flanking tile bands of red, cream and green and good timber and glazed detailing. The interior has three rooms and a dog-leg corridor which also serves as a drinking lobby.

One of Manchester's most distinctive and famous pubs.

This famous triangular pub at the corner of Great Bridgewater St and Chepstow St is one of Manchester’s most distinctive public houses with its cladding of green and greenish-yellow ceramic tiles contrasting with the modern office and apartment blocks surrounding it. The Peveril of the Peak was built in the 1820s and remodelled around the end of the nineteenth century (when the cladding was added) (http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-388001-peveril-of-the-peak-public-house- ). The name is said to commemorate a horse-drawn stagecoach that ran between Manchester and London (Market St. to London via Derbyshire) “Peveril” referring to Peveril Castle near Castleton (http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/tours/tour6/area6page19.html Manchester History Net). The building is Grade II listed as a “Good example of turn of the century public house remodelling and retains its contemporary plan, fittings and decoration” (http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-388001-peveril-of-the-peak-public-house- British Listed Buildings).

Early C19th but owing its jolly green exterior to a remodelling of c1900. Both fronts here are clad entirely in glazed tiles, extra attention being lavished upon the doorways (Image]). Grade II listed.

Ornate tiled pilasters with capitals. The decorative panels in the pilasters have a definite tinge of Art Nouveau about them. Full view here: Image

Rain Bar, correctly expressed as RA!N BAR, in former commercial premises on Great Bridgewater Street, overlooking Rochdale Canal at the back. Internally, U-shaped bar, two levels. Cask ales from JW Lees on offer. For some customer reviews, see http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/11/1128/Rain_Bar/Castlefield

There has been much canalside development along this stretch of the Rochdale Canal.

Just west of Oxford Street.

About to descend Tib Lock [No 89].