Brick-built public house erected in 1959. Designed by Derbyshire-based architect, William Blair for the Hardy and Hanson's Brewery. A simple plan exists in the county archive dated Jan 1958. Set back from the road it was originally surrounded by a large plot, situated at a crossroads of Awsworth Lane, The Lane, Newtons Lane and Westby Lane and as such is a highly visible local landmark (CAMRA 2022).

Unpublished Historic England research document by architectural historian Elain Harwood reads "The plans by William Blair ARIBA of Burton House, Burton Road, Derby for Hardy’s, dated January 1958, are rather charmingly simplistic in style. It is an ‘L’-plan save that the lounge is still called a ‘smoke room’. The plans were approved in March 1958, but for a site on the corner of Awsworth and Newton’s Lane previously occupied by allotments, rather than on the opposite side of the road and slightly south, as built. This plan is little altered, but the bars have Victorian fronts and the lounge bar/smoke room has been extended outwards to the south. A northwards extension replaces the off sales area and contains the pool table. There is a door so was this an early addition that included the off-sales?" (Elain Harwood / Historic England).