The Town Mouse Public House, Daneshouse with Stoneyholme, Burnley, Lancashire, BB12 (Grade II)

BURNLEY

SD8332NE BROWN STREET 906-1/15/25 (West side) The Town Mouse Public House

Formerly known as: Salford Hotel BROWN STREET. Public house. c1900-1914 with later alterations. Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Double-depth plan. Edwardian Baroque style. 2 storeys with cellar and attic, 2:3:2 windows, symmetrical, the centre higher and gabled in the form of a steeply-pitched open pediment; with channelled corner pilasters, modillioned cornice and pediment. The centre has channelled pilasters to the ground floor, a recessed doorway to the right with set-in Ionic columns, a carved frieze (mostly covered by a C20 fascia), and 3 sashed windows at 1st floor with moulded architraves, that in the centre with a pediment containing a cartouche and the others with keystones breaking through the cornice, and a Venetian window to the attic. The outer bays have tripartite windows at ground floor with architraves including Ionic colonnettes distyle in antis, and coupled windows at 1st floor with enriched shouldered architraves and Ionic columnar mullions. INTERIOR: original island bar of mahogany with inset Art Nouveau tiling below the counter and sashed windows above; some internal partitions removed.