Guest House, Southport

Built 1909 for Robert B Haslam of sandstone - a delightful example of early 20th-century 'Brewers' Tudor'. Above the entrance is an ornate plaster panel with raised lettering 'The Guest House' and stylised rose trees. The inner door is in a screen with lots of colourful stained and leaded panels. It retains its original layout of 3 rooms with lots of wood panelling and leaded glass. The public bar on the right has a four-section glazed screened counter which has lost three of its lower panels - the far right lower screen is permanently closed. The whole of the bar back is new from a sympathetic refurbishment in 2001. The public bar retains its original fireplace (with new tiles), original fixed seating, fielded dado panelling and bell pushes.

Front left room has a parquet floor, fielded panelling to two-thirds height, original fixed seating, a baffle and fire surround featuring two carvings featuring a serpent, but the tiles and fireplace are new. The rear left room has been opened-up to the passage to the toilets and a stained glass screen added, but does retain original fireplace (with modern stove) with bevelled mirror in mantelpiece, a baffle and most of the fixed seating. Gents has original terrazzo floor and, unusually, two sets of original urinals - four and another two at right angles, but the wall tiling is modern. It has even got a working Avery weighing machine that takes a 'new 10p' so it must date from at least the early 1970s. Upstairs a former music or billiard room has flower and leaf motifs in stained glass. Lots of colourful stained and leaded panes in exterior windows.