It was built in 1910, and the architect was Norman Evans.[1]
It was built for a company called Temperance Billiard Halls Ltd, who built a number of such halls in London and the north of England. The temperance movement urged the reduced or prohibited use of alcoholic beverages.
It was previously part of the chain O'Neill's, and before that was part of the Firkin Brewery chain and known as the Pharaoh and Firkin.