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The Bate Hall, Macclesfield

39 Chestergate
Macclesfield
SK11 6BX

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Town Centre Pub (Marstons)

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Macclesfield Town

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Old Boots left this review about The Bate Hall

Allegedly an old pub, it was deserted when I called in, I noticed some old ceiling beams that looked original and maybe in situ. There’s a back bar with servery and pool table. Otherwise there’s not much to recommend the place, it’s nicely decorated apart from the dodgy animal heads on old portraits wallpaper, there’s a mix of furniture high and low, it also claims some ghosts. On the counter to the rear left we have three pulls with a dispiriting choice of Pedigree, ( what happened to that excellent beer?) and Hobgoblin Gold, now an equally nasty drop, I suspect it’s the filtering and reseeding they get up to that produces beer this poor. Anyway back to the pub, not much more to say it’s so bland and featureless, the most exciting thing was the barmaid and her boyfriend having a quick snog and grope.

On 13^th February 2025 - no rating submitted
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Strongers . left this review about The Bate Hall

The Bate Hall is a long and thin Marston’s pub that reportedly dates from the 16th century, which I could sense even with the knocking through of rooms over the years. The Oak Bar is found in the left front where seating in the front window is separated from the bar counter across the rear by a flagstone floor. There’s a mix of standard and high tables on laminate to the right where a burner sits on the rear wall. I sat on one of these high tables facing the television in the bar that was showing an England pre Euro24 friendly. About five minutes from the end of the first half the landlady turned the sound off and declared that Love Island would be going on for the start of the second half. Steps to the left of the bar counter lead up to a rear bar where the pub’s dart team were practising ready for a Monday night league match. They weren’t very friendly, maybe they were just in the zone awaiting the arrival of their opponents, who knows! In the right rear of the pub is an nice parquet floored room that is being used as a dining area, although it looked like half the table and chairs were missing.
Standard keg was available alongside Ringwood’s Razorback and Wainwright’s Amber, the former being very much past its best. This isn’t a pub I’ll be revisiting.

On 13^th June 2024 - rating: 4
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Will Larter left this review about The Bate Hall

I've walked past this pub a couple of times on previous trips to Macclesfield, but it was reading the review from ROB Camra below that prompted me to make a visit. Not because I like sour beer - I don't even like deliberately sour beer, never mind an iffy Pedigree. No, it was more a matter of facing a challenge. We now know what the pub is like, but can I hack the beer?

There were three hand pumps on the bar, one offering Wainwright Amber, one Ringwood Razorback and the middle one a Santa hat (see photo). I went for the Ringwood (or the no-longer-brewed-by-Ringwood - I guess we should be saying Banks's) while my drinking companion went for the other non-hat option. What he got was not Wainwright Amber - see his photo at https://retiredmartin.com/2023/12/08/macc-macc-will-tear-us-apart-again/ - it looks like a blonde to me. My Razor was NBSS 3. Martin said his Wain was "a comfortable NBSS 3", while I think mine needed a little shove to get across that line.

There's a smart dining room at the rear (empty on an early December Tuesday afternoon) and a pool room. It's good that they've spent some money to try to get people to use this pub, but I tend to agree with the previous reviewer about lost character and wonder if smartening the place up absolutely has to also remove it. I wonder if the present version of this pub will last long enough to develop some character of its own, or will it "need a refurb" two or three years down the line? Maybe I'll come back to see, but there are definitely better pubs in Macc than this, and they'll be my priority, I reckon.

Date of visit: 5th December 2023

On 24^th December 2023 - rating: 5
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