A former coaching inn, it stands adjacent to the churchyard of St Chad's, at the corner of Chapel Street.

A tavern, believed to have been called the Green Man,[1] was on the site in 1793, and may have been built in the Middle Ages.

[4] In 2019, the pub was refurbished, including the addition of a roof terrace and an improvement to the pub's Chapel Street Brew House microbrewing facility,[4] which was started in 2014.

[6] Today's building was completed in 1907,[6] replacing an earlier structure which was oriented facing Chapel Street.

[7] The pub is one of 32 buildings in the town's Conservation Area.