An important inn with half-timbered facade set at an imposing height on West Street, a main road winding through Congleton to the left off High Street. Congleton was a small market town on the River Dane in rolling countryside near the foothills of the Pennines. The present 2-storey inn is heavily restored and was mostly rebuilt in the 19th c. in brick. A section of 16th c. wattle and daub fabric and load-bearing timbers remain on the ground floor in the central core. No innyard survives though there is a deep car park to the right of the inn.