The building was on the very end of Chapel Street, on land that is now the roundabout. It closed in 1973 and was demolished in the late 1980s along with a series of buildings along Tape Street.

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By 1907 the pub was owned by the Burton Brewery Company. The rent paid by James Plant at that time was £14 per year.

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On December 31st 1966 the Oddfellow Society held their annual general meeting here, the society had previously met at the Unicorn Hotel.

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The Rifleman’s closed in 1973 following the death of the licensee, the pubs location in the town was by now considered to quite dangerous as road traffic had increased; throughout 1974 it was described as “the most dangerous place in Cheadle” by local press. The owners of the building Ansells Ltd. lodged a number of proposals with the Staffordshire Moorlands District Council throughout that year but they were refused.

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By 1978 the building was still vacant and the area was still part of a plan to improve the road system; new plans to re-open the building as a pub were blocked at various time at the start of the year, against all the odds though the pub was granted a license in late 1978 although it failed to re-open.

 

In March 1981 the council managed to declare the pub permanently closed on the grounds of redundancy. The following month an application was submitted to turn the building into a series of flats.

 

The pub building was demolished along with other buildings on Chapel Street in the late 1980s.

 

Past Proprietors:

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William Thomas Elkin (Kelly’s Post Office Directory of Staffordshire 1872 and Kelly’s Directory of Staffordshire 1880, 1884)
James Plant [from around 1895](Kelly’s Directory of Staffordshire 1900, c.1910 Information, Kelly’s Dir 1921 and 1924)
Frank Albert Plant (Kelly’s Directory of Staffordshire 1932 and 1940)
George Brassington [last licensee in 1973] (Cheadle Public Houses of Yesteryear)

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