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Picture source: Neal Buckley

The Blue Bell Inn was situated on Yorkshire Street. This grade-II listed pub was later used as a Yates Wine Lodge.

Source: Ted Stott

Listed building details:

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.

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