{{Short description|Former pub in Pendleton, Greater Manchester, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Use British English|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox building | name = The Maypole | former_name = Maypole Hotel | image = Former Maypole public house, Salford.jpg | image_size = | alt = Red-brick public house in a Gothic style | image_caption = The former pub in 2011, on the left | building_type = [[Public house]] (formerly) | coordinates = {{Coord|53.4929|-2.2840|region:GB_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | location = Broughton Road, [[Pendleton, Greater Manchester]], England | pushpin_map = Greater Manchester | client = James Addison | years_built = {{circa|1860}} | architect = James Redford | architectural_style = [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] | closing_date = 1990s (as a pub) | status = Converted to residential | designations = {{Designation list | embed = yes | designation1 = Grade II Listed Building | designation1_offname = The Maypole | designation1_date = 18 February 1998 | designation1_number = {{NHLE|num=1386098|short=y|postscript=none}} }} }}
'''The Maypole''' is a [[Grade II listed]] former [[public house]] on Broughton Road in [[Pendleton, Greater Manchester|Pendleton]], an inner-city district of [[Salford]], England. Built in around 1860 in a [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] style, it was designed by the [[Manchester]] architect James Redford and originally opened as a hotel named after a [[maypole]] that stood beside the site. It remained in pub use into the late 20th century before closing in the early 1990s and was later converted to residential use.
==History== The building was constructed in around 1860, according to its official listing.<ref name="NHLE">{{NHLE|num=1386098 |desc=The Maypole |grade=II |access-date=22 May 2026}}</ref>{{efn|Other sources give construction dates of 1858–1861<ref>{{cite web |year=2007 |title=Drinker's Alemanac |url=https://greatermanchester.camra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/DrinkersAlemanac_IS4.pdf |website=[[Campaign for Real Ale]] North Manchester Branch |access-date=22 May 2026}}</ref> or 1875.<ref name="Victorian">{{cite web |title=Maypole Hotel, Broughton Road, Pendleton |url=https://manchestervictorianarchitects.org.uk/buildings/maypole-hotel-broughton-road-pendleton |website=Architects of Greater Manchester 1800 – 1940 |publisher=The Manchester Group of the Victorian Society |access-date=22 May 2026}}</ref>}} While the listing does not specify its original use, a contemporary source records that it was built as a hotel.<ref name="Victorian" /> It was designed by the [[Manchester]] architect James Redford for James Addison.<ref name="Victorian" /> The hotel was named after a [[maypole]] that stood beside the site, raised by local subscription to replace [[Pendleton, Greater Manchester|Pendleton]]'s earlier pole.<ref name="Victorian" />
The 1893 [[Ordnance Survey]] map shows it in use as the Maypole Hotel,<ref>{{cite web |year=1893 |title=OS 25 inch England and Wales, 1841–1952 {{!}} Lancashire CIV.5 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/126522800 |website=[[National Library of Scotland]] |publisher=[[Ordnance Survey]] |access-date=22 May 2026}}</ref> while the 1922 edition marks it as a [[public house]] without an attributed name.<ref>{{cite web |year=1922 |title=OS 25 inch England and Wales, 1841–1952 {{!}} Lancashire CIV.5 |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/126522803 |website=[[National Library of Scotland]] |publisher=[[Ordnance Survey]] |access-date=22 May 2026}}</ref>
According to a local history blog, anecdotal recollections suggest that the pub closed in the early 1990s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Maypole, Ford Lane |url=https://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.com/2011/10/maypole-ford-lane.html |website=Pubs of Manchester |access-date=22 May 2026}}</ref>
On 18 February 1998, The Maypole was designated a [[Grade II listed]] building.<ref name="NHLE" />
The building was subsequently converted to residential use, but the date of the conversion is not documented.
==Architecture== The building is constructed in brick with stone detailing and has a Welsh slate roof. It has two floors and five [[Bay (architecture)|bays]], with [[gable]]d ends at each side, and is designed in a [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] style.<ref name="Maypole">{{cite web |title=The Maypole |url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101386098-the-maypole-irwell-riverside-ward |website=British Listed Buildings |access-date=22 May 2026}}</ref> The lower level is faced in stone. The main entrance sits just left of the centre within a small gabled porch.<ref name="NHLE" /> To its left is a three‑part [[mullion]]ed window; to its right are two later window openings, with a secondary doorway beneath the right‑hand gable.<ref name="NHLE" />
On the upper floor, the right‑hand gable contains an [[oriel window]] and a round opening set high in the gable. The central section has three arched windows with patterned brickwork above them, topped by a stone parapet with [[corbel]]ling and two small [[dormer]]s with hipped gables.<ref name="Maypole" /> The left‑hand gable has a group of three round‑arched windows with coloured stone detailing, and above them stepped openings with a small cast‑iron balcony supported on brackets.<ref name="NHLE" /> Both gables include shallow decorative corbelling and stone [[Coping (architecture)|coping]]. The end walls have shortened chimney stacks.<ref name="Maypole" />
==See also== {{portal|Greater Manchester}} *[[Listed buildings in Salford]]
==Notes== {{Notelist}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Salford B&S}}
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