This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
SD 8913 SE ROCHDALE YORKSHIRE STREET (north-west side) 11/133 Yates's Wine - Lodge (The Blue Bell)
G.V. II
Hotel (Blue Bell) now Yates's Wine Lodge. The building has two facades, the one on Yorkshire Street dated 1749 on a rainwater head, the one on Newgate inscribed "Wine Lodge 1911". Yorkshire Street: brick with stone dressings and slate roof, Newgate: ashlar. The long plan is cranked and has an entrance to each street. The 5-bay, 3-storey Yorkshire Street elevation has a central doorway, C20 glazing to all but the ground floor which has Victorian sashes to the left and a C20 shopfront to the right, stone sills and keystones, a modillion eaves cornice and an ornate lead rainwater head. The 5-bay single-storey Newgate elevation is in an Edwardian Baroque style. Gables over the two side bays and central three. Semi-circular headed window and door openings with keystones and leaded glass.
Pilasters rise from corbels at impost level. "Rochdale Vintners Wine Co. Ltd." on frieze with cornice above. Semi- circular pediments to each gable with elaborate cartouches the central one engraved "Wine Lodge 1911" and having a grapevine surround.
Listing NGR: SD8959413386
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