Doffcocker Inn, Bolton

The Doffcocker Inn is built under the theme of a calendar. It is has 365 panes of glass, for the days of the year, 52 doors for the weeks of the year, 12 cellars for the months of the year, 4 floors for the seasons, 7 rooms on each floor for the days of the week. Three storey pub built 1901 (in stone above door). The good quality bar fittings look like Holts replacements. Holts bought the pub from Tetley Walker in the mid 1980s. Bar fittings in the front may be old but room is opened-up, fixed seating looks old. Note 'Refreshment Bar' unusual etched windows. Less opened-up is the front left room with good what looks like original fixed seating in four bays with bell pushes in the wood panelling above; the small cast iron fireplace is probably a replacement. Rear lounge is a large room opened-up with modern fittings having originally been three rooms. The splendid decoratively tiled, cast iron and marble surround fireplace could be an import and the fixed seating in two areas modern?

Open staircase has a good carved newel post. Good Art Nouveau windows on the half landings between both first and second floor and second and third floor. Upstairs has quality dado panelling along the passage and at the rear is the Billiard Room with lots of original windows but the good quality bar fittings were probably added by Holts? Has a dumb waiter , vaulted ceiling, a dome covered up and a '9' button on the door. Also on the first floor is a small Club Room with the wording on the windows and two doors with the figure '10' on a button, There is a figure '8' on the door to a 'Private' room also two 'Lavatory Edwardian etched panels in the door. Worth a visit if you can get a visit upstairs.