Little is known about the history of the building although it has always been used as a pub and a hotel. This was also the pub in which Branwell Bronte drank his health away (he bought his Opium in the Apothecary across the cobbled street) whilst his sisters were writing their novels in the Parsonage behind the pub (Both Charlotte and Emily also died in the parsonage). Branwell Bronte was born on June 26th 1817 and died of chronic bronchitis and consumption in 1848. At the age of 19 he was proposed a freemason and later became secretary of the lodge, while meetings were originally held at the Black Bull before moving to Lodge Street. A chair on the stairway at the pub is a Mason's Chair and is thought to be that of Branwell Bronte. The pub also boasts a print of a picture of Branwell and his famous sisters which he later painted himself out of after a family falling out. The story is that he was the actual author of Wuthering Heights and Emily took the manuscript and made slight changes and sold it as her own work. Paranormal activity has included sightings of a man dressed in beige sitting at one of the tables in the main bar, while outside a girl is heard crying in the car park and allotments. A man in a top hat is also often seen sitting at one of the tables, believed to be Dan Sugden, the landlord at the time the Bronte's lived in Haworth. In Room 2 people have woken up to see the dark figure of a man watching them while Room 3 is thought to be haunted by a maid.