An iconic Manchester brewery has opened its first hotel in its 173-year history after transforming a former Premier Inn.
Joseph Holt acquired the site next to one of its pubs, the Cat and Lion in Stretton and has renamed the expanded operation as the Cat and Lion Country Pub and Hotel.
The brewery has been in the same family for six generations and already owns 127 pubs across the North West.
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Seven of these venues do have rooms but this is limited to eight bedrooms or less.
Estates executive Dennis Maddocks said: "When we heard the property was for sale it was too good an opportunity to miss – offering a chance to turn our already popular and historic Cat and Lion pub into a venue for country house style accommodation too."
The Cat and Lion was built in the 1600s as a coaching inn and still retains some of its original features with a hay hatch door and wooden beams.
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