The Counting House was originally Prescot’s Bank, built in 1893, until those good people at Fuller, Turner and Smith did what they do best and converted it into a pub. As you would expect, the interior is suitably ornate and sumptuous, indeed magnificent, like many of their conversions, with the traditional island bar, chandeliers, many of the original fixtures and fittings, a gallery and impressively domed skylight. In the words of Fuller’s themselves, it “oozes nineteenth-century grandeur”. They have even retained the war memorial in the bar, commemorating all the bank staff who died in the Great War, the original name for the First World War until the second one came along to give it some perspective.