Set within the Northern Quarter of Manchester's City Centre, hte Abel Heywood is located on Turner Street in a group of former garment warehouses within the Conservation Area. A painstaking restoration of the exterior façades and internal linking of spaces allowed the creation in this Allison Pike design of a traditional broad appeal city pub with upstairs dining rooms and a fifteen bedroom boutique hotel on the upper floors. In the 1980's the building was converted to a stage set for Cutting It by the BBC and the mock London pub frontage on the corner was restored and enhanced with new sliding sashes and traditional butcher's shop awnings. internally lit with filaments and war glow LEDs the bar evokes a Soho corner London pub with its dominant bar and earthy finishes. Bedrooms are individual in layout but all feature digital prints of the Manchester skyline and distressed timber finishes. Abel Heywood was the Lord Mayor of the City at the time of the construction of the Town Hall and the large bell in the tower was named after him.