Listed Buildings in Aston Ward.

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(29) Master’s House and Hall at Broadway Comprehensive School, Whitehead Road.

Description from Historic England...

MASTERS HOUSE AND HALL AT BROADWAY COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL, Non Civil Parish - 1343167 | Historic England

List entry 1343167. Grade II Listed Building: Masters House And Hall At Broadway Comprehensive School. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

“WHITEHEAD ROAD 1. 5104 Aston B6 Master's House and Hall at Broadway Comprehensive School SP 08 NE 7/92 II 2. Single storey hall of red brick with terracotta dressings abuts 2 storey and attic master's house of similar build at south end. Steep hipped slate roof with central squat square tower rising from west front, between 2 half octagon bays, with terracotta flying crown/cupola balustraded and finialed. Doorway on west side with hood, one end supported on adjoining bay, the other born on large lascivious console. The house proper an asymmetrical corner plan with shaped gables and corner squat octagon turret the upper stage terracotta dressed with gargoyles to corners and lead dome. Bowed terracotta porch in re-entrant angle to Priestley Road, also with lead dome. Hall elevation to this side has very close set range of semi-dormers.”

Old pictures posted by Carolina and Vivienne in the Forum thread Aston Commercial School Holte Grammar...

Aston Commercial School Holte Grammar

One of the founder members of the group Terry "Geyser" Butler went to the same school as myself and was in the next year up. The school was Holte Grammar Commercial School in Whitehead Road Aston. I have a website for it at https://members.lycos.co.uk/holte61 good luck with the research, I am...

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Aston Commercial School Holte Grammar

One of the founder members of the group Terry "Geyser" Butler went to the same school as myself and was in the next year up. The school was Holte Grammar Commercial School in Whitehead Road Aston. I have a website for it at https://members.lycos.co.uk/holte61 good luck with the research, I am...

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30) Newhall Pen Works.

Description from Historic England...

NEWHALL PEN WORKS, Non Civil Parish - 1391127 | Historic England

List entry 1391127. Grade II Listed Building: Newhall Pen Works. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

 

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(31) No3 Buildings, Princip Street.

NUMBER 3 BUILDINGS OF PREMISES OCCUPIED BY MA LLOYD AND SON, Non Civil Parish - 1076232 | Historic England

List entry 1076232. Grade II Listed Building: Number 3 Buildings Of Premises Occupied By Ma Lloyd And Son. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

PRINCIP STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B4 No 47 (No 3 buildings of premises occupied by M A Lloyd and Son) SP 0787 NW 26/8 II 2. Circa 1840-50, rare survival of large early to mid C19 works with living accommodation. A tall 3 storey red brick symmetrical elevation 5 bays: 2:1:2, the broader centre bay being slightly recessed. Engineering brick plinth, first floor stucco sill course, flush band defining frieze and projecting stone cornice with blocking course, recessed with centre. Tall 3 x 3 pane revealed sashes with finely gauged flat arches. Tripartite central window with stucco heads and with architrave on second floor. Large waggon entrance to centre ground floor, segmental gauged brick arch with stucco sections of entablature as imposts. Narrow vertical panels to double door. Shopping in rear wings to yard.

 

[Astoness]

i was allowed in this building a few years back before it was sold up...photos i took should be on the forum.....as you entered the large waggon entrance on the right were some old workshops which i believe were demolished when renovation started

lyn

 

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(32) Church of St Paul, Lozells Road.

Description from Historic England...

PARISH CHURCH OF ST PAUL, Non Civil Parish - 1076253 | Historic England

List entry 1076253. Grade II Listed Building: Parish Church Of St Paul. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

“LOZELLS ROAD 1. Lozells B19 319 5104 Parish Church of St Paul SP 08 NE 7/64 II 2. 1880, by J A Chatwin. Rock faced Bath stone west front to road; brick at the back; slate roof. Save end aisles, apsidal east end and bold, square north-west tower. In a Perpendicular style. Coupled shafts mark the division between chancel and nave. The nave with squat round piers with lush foliage to the capitals. The open timber roof is supported on shafts that rise from above the piers and the apexes of the arches. Large round pulpit.”

The Church is now redundant and used by the Assemblies of the First Born Church of God.

The proposal from March 1878 can be seen in the clip below. The acquired site was referred to as Ivy Bank, and half the seats would be free.

 

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33) Pelican Works, Great Hampton Street.

Description from Historic England...

PELICAN WORKS, Non Civil Parish - 1075541 | Historic England

List entry 1075541. Grade II Listed Building: Pelican Works. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

“GREAT HAMPTON STREET 1. 5104 Hockley B18 No 45 (Pelican Works) SP 0688 SW 22/3 II 2. C1860-70 palazzo style works. Two storey red brick with stucco dressings. Seven bay front. Ground floor with central arched entrance in heavy frame whose entablature supports blind balustrade to upper window. Left and right 3 bay arcade on black brick plinth. First floor with sash windows with segmental stucco keyed arches and panels beneath the sill course. Bracketted eaves cornice with parapet, with intermittent openwork panels and central blocking course inscribed "Pelican Works" surmounted by pelican with outspread wings. Right hand return to Hockley Street of 4 similar window bays and with long 25 bay 3 storey range of shopping with segmental arched iron frame windows on sill bands; brick dentil eaves cornice. Segmental waggon arch at far end of range.”

The Pelican Works Fórum Thread started by Morturn...

The Pelican Works

The Pelican Works is now on the Victorian Society’s top ten building at risk for 2019.

birminghamhistory.co.uk

Picture posted by Lyn showing the Pelican...

Great Hampton Street

How funny that there's a weighing machine right outside the pub! Viv. This is interesting; there were a lots of those weighing machines around, inside shops etc, in the streets. I'm sure there was one outside Woolworth's in Erdington High Street, and do I recall one in the old Kings Hall...

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Closer look at the Pelican on the Pelican Works thread...

Pelican Works

I managed to take this photo today of the Pelican on the roof of what was The Pelican Works on Great Hampton Street. What a magnificent specimen.

birminghamhistory.co.uk

 

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33) Pelican Works, Great Hampton Street.

Description from Historic England...

PELICAN WORKS, Non Civil Parish - 1075541 | Historic England

List entry 1075541. Grade II Listed Building: Pelican Works. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

“GREAT HAMPTON STREET 1. 5104 Hockley B18 No 45 (Pelican Works) SP 0688 SW 22/3 II 2. C1860-70 palazzo style works. Two storey red brick with stucco dressings. Seven bay front. Ground floor with central arched entrance in heavy frame whose entablature supports blind balustrade to upper window. Left and right 3 bay arcade on black brick plinth. First floor with sash windows with segmental stucco keyed arches and panels beneath the sill course. Bracketted eaves cornice with parapet, with intermittent openwork panels and central blocking course inscribed "Pelican Works" surmounted by pelican with outspread wings. Right hand return to Hockley Street of 4 similar window bays and with long 25 bay 3 storey range of shopping with segmental arched iron frame windows on sill bands; brick dentil eaves cornice. Segmental waggon arch at far end of range.”

The Pelican Works Fórum Thread started by Morturn...

The Pelican Works

The Pelican Works is now on the Victorian Society’s top ten building at risk for 2019.

birminghamhistory.co.uk

Picture posted by Lyn showing the Pelican...

Great Hampton Street

How funny that there's a weighing machine right outside the pub! Viv. This is interesting; there were a lots of those weighing machines around, inside shops etc, in the streets. I'm sure there was one outside Woolworth's in Erdington High Street, and do I recall one in the old Kings Hall...

birminghamhistory.co.uk

Closer look at the Pelican on the Pelican Works thread...

Pelican Works

I managed to take this photo today of the Pelican on the roof of what was The Pelican Works on Great Hampton Street. What a magnificent specimen.

birminghamhistory.co.uk

The earliest reference that I can find for the Pelican Works is in 1870 and associated with Thomas Wilkinson and Co. But this reference may not be to the present building which is No. 85 Great Hampton St.

Thomas Wilkinson and Co was an old established firm, and recorded at 15 Great Hampton Street as early as 1835. In 1868 the company's address was 15 and also 45/46 in the street, while at 85 was Charles Dipple and Son.

By 1883 Wilkinson had left N°15 and noted at 45/46, while Dibble still at 85. However around 1881 Dipple was bankrupt, and so it maybe that Wilkinson acquired the building. As there is a reference in 1870 it looks like the old pelican either moved down the road with them, or was put on his perch.

(Edit 1930hrs...Due to the error discussed in the following posts, the present address is 45 Great Hampton Street, and therefore the mention of Charles Dipple should be disregarded. Thomas Wilkinson must have moved from No.15 Great Hampton Street to 45/46, a newly built building, around 1868.)

Thomas Wilkinson August 1886 at the Birmingham Exhibition...

 

[Eric Gibson]

My memory of the Pelican was the Pelican Café where, when I worked for Herbert Pollitt's garageI I was required to go and collect their waste food (pig bin) for his farm animals.

 

[Vivienne14]

Great thread. Very useful to keep these buildings in view because although they’re listed it guarantees very little about their future.

Like it that links to relevant threads have also been included. Thanks all. Keep up the good work ! Viv.

 

[mikejee]

The earliest reference that I can find for the Pelican Works is in 1870 and associated with Thomas Wilkinson and Co. But this reference may not be to the present building which is No. 85 Great Hampton St.


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Pedro
I think you had a mistype there. The Pelican works is no 44-45, not 85
According to the English Heritage book on the Jewellery Quarter, it was built c1868 for Thomas Wilkinson, who were founded in 1832.

 

[Pedrocut]

That’s interesting, I’ve taken the address No.85 from the present Bass Warehouse, and their picture shows the Pelican...

The Bass Warehouse - Birmingham, XWM

THE BASS WAREHOUSE in Birmingham, reviews by real people. Yelp is a fun and easy way to find, recommend and talk about what’s great and not so great in Birmingham and beyond.

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But as English Heritage say number the Pelican Works is No.45, and was built 1868, this would roughly coincide with Wilkinson’s move from No.15.

The description given in the Historic England Listing does say no.45.

 

[Pedrocut]

For info.....The 1852 Slater's Directory gives Thomas Wilkinson and Co at No.15 Great Hampton St.

 

[Pedrocut]

Yes it is N°45 Great Hampton Street!

This is how my error occured. On the version of Google Street view that I have you get the picture of the Pelican Works and the Bass Warehouse is marked at the corner with Hockley Street. If you just move the view slightly the Bass Warehouse disappears and First Fasion replaces it. Now First Fasion is at No.45.

 

[mikejee]

As does the 1867 PO directory, but the 1868 one shows 45-46 and no 15, but by 1872 it is just 45,46

 

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(34) 16-18 Princip Street...

Description from Historic England...

PREMISES OCCUPIED BY BRYTEK POLISHING COMPANY, Non Civil Parish - 1343122 | Historic England

List entry 1343122. Grade II Listed Building: Premises Occupied By Brytek Polishing Company. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

“PRINCIP STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B4 Nos 16, 17 and 18 (premises occupied by Brytek Polishing Company) SP 0787 NW 26/7 II 2. Circa 1840-50 small canalside works of 2 storeys red brick with engineering brick plinth. Four bays. Gutter eaves and low pitch touched slate roof. Revealed glazing bar sashes with cambered header arches, stucco sills; 4 x 4 panes with 3 x 4 panes on office door. The latter is revealed in 2 orders with cambered arch. Segmental arched yard entrance in second bay from left. A modest but unaltered works elevation of early to mid C19 type now a rarity in what remains of the, gun quarter and with its rear facade with loading bay on to the canal.”

There is a thread for Princip Street on the Forum...

Princip Street...Newtown

i was just having a little amble the other day and went down princip st....for any members who may be researching their family history these are the only two remaining houses in the street...number 62 and i presume either 60 or 64...depending on which way the numbers ran.... as i couldnt see a...

birminghamhistory.co.uk

 

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(36) Railings and Gate Piers to Broadway Comprehensive School, Fronting Road

Description from Historic England...

RAILINGS AND GATE PIERS TO BROADWAY COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL, FRONTING ROAD, Non Civil Parish - 1076063 | Historic England

List entry 1076063. Grade II Listed Building: Railings And Gate Piers To Broadway Comprehensive School, Fronting Road. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

“WHITEHEAD ROAD 1. 5104 Aston E6 Railings and gate piers to Broadway Comprehensive School, fronting road SP 08 NE 7/93 II 2. Plain spike railings on dwarf walls with ball finialed standards. Gate piers of red brick with rounded corners. Terracotta friezes with scrolls, cornices and sinuously domed caps. The gates themselves have rusticated ironwork base but with Art Nouveau beaten work leaf decoration to dograils rind overthrow.”

A picture from Google Street view shows further deterioration from the one in the Historic England.

 

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39) Barton’s Arms, High Street

Description from Historic England...

THE BARTONS ARMS PUBLIC HOUSE, Non Civil Parish - 1076341 | Historic England

List entry 1076341. Grade II* Listed Building: The Bartons Arms Public House. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

Fórum thread for the Barton’s Arms

Barton's Arms High Street Aston

If you use the Opera Browser, which has a free VPN choice, you could move yourself - internet wise - to Europe or somewhere else maybe. That might allow you to view. Appreciate the info, however, I've just had my laptop completely rebuilt and limiting my downloads to a minimum. Had previous...

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Video link posted by RobT on the thread...

Barton's Arms High Street Aston

If you use the Opera Browser, which has a free VPN choice, you could move yourself - internet wise - to Europe or somewhere else maybe. That might allow you to view. Appreciate the info, however, I've just had my laptop completely rebuilt and limiting my downloads to a minimum. Had previous...

birminghamhistory.co.uk

 

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(40) Broadway Comprehensive School, Whitehead Road.

Description from Historic England...

THE BROADWAY COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL, Non Civil Parish - 1289998 | Historic England

List entry 1289998. Grade II Listed Building: The Broadway Comprehensive School. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

Picture from Google Street view...

 

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(41) The Bulls Head Public House, Loveday Street.

Description from Historic England...

THE BULLS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, Non Civil Parish - 1291450 | Historic England

List entry 1291450. Grade II Listed Building: The Bulls Head Public House. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

“LOVEDAY STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B4 The Bull's Head Public House SP 0787 NW 26/5 23.2.81 II GV 2. Late C18 or circa 1800 a three storey red brick corner house with modest mid C19 public house front on ground floor. One bay to Loveday Street and three to Price Street with 2 storey 2 bay rear wing. Plain well proportioned Venetian window to first floor with architrave moulded and keystone, renewed glazing bars to central sash. Small second floor window in flush architrave, 2 x 3 panes, shaped stucco head to flat arch with grooved voussoirs and keystone. The return front has 4 x 4 frame sashes to first floor with grooved flat stucco arches and prominent keystones. The centre window on record floor is blind. Modest pilastered public house windows and door to both fronts with panelled risers to windows. Raised doorways on Price Street have floral decoration to capitals of pilasters. The wing has 2 camber headed flush framed first floor windows and the brickwork is of the same build as No 2 Price Street. A well preserved and virtually unique survival with No 44 of a domestic building of this date by the city centre.”

 

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(44) Thomas Rickman's Tomb in St George's Garden, Great Hampton Row.

Description from Historic England...

THOMAS RICKMAN'S TOMB IN ST GEORGE'S GARDEN, Non Civil Parish - 1075538 | Historic England

List entry 1075538. Grade II Listed Building: Thomas Rickman's Tomb In St George's Garden. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

“GREAT HAMPTON ROW 1. 5104 Newtown B19 Thomas Rickman's tomb in St George's Gardens SP 0688 SE 23/3 II 2. Sandstone tabernacle "chancel" tomb with cusped panelling to plinth. The tomb chest contained by arched gabled canopy with eroded late C14 debased cusped arches, ball flower and drips on carved stops, crockets to gable. The largely defaced inscription reads "Thomas Rickman architect FSA who first correctly named the several styles and elucidated the principles of our ecclesiastical architecture. This monument was dedicated by a few of his friends in the cemetery of one of his many churches, which he erected. He died Jan III MDCCCXXXXI, aged LXIV.”

Picture by Lynn from Great Hampton Row thread...

great hampton row

Hi Lyn, more pics of Great Hampton Row to follow! Will let you know when I post them.

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(1) 1-4, Hampton Street.

Description from Historic England...

394, 395 AND 396, SUMMER LANE B19, 1-4, HAMPTON STREET B19, Non Civil Parish - 1076354 | Historic England

List entry 1076354. Grade II Listed Building: 394, 395 And 396, Summer Lane B19, 1-4, Hampton Street B19. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

“HAMPTON STREET 1. 5104 Edgbaston B19 Nos 1 to 4 (consec) SP 0687 NE 25/3 II GV 2. Includes Nos 394, 395 and 396 Summer Lane, Newtown. C1880 corner block of shops and works with housing and workshops above. The bowed corner and immediate returns of 4 storeys, the main side ranges of 3 storeys and attics. Built of red brick with stone, cut brick, ceramic bricks and polychrome tile decoration and dressings. The corner has elements of Ruskinian Gothic relating to the terrace on Constitution Hill whilst the side ranges have more usual Birmingham Gothic detailing. The corner shop front is painted white with broad articulating piers, whilst the adjacent shops and works entrances on both fronts have panelled pilasters with elongated acanthus consoles and bracketed cornices. The upper storeys single and coupled jointed windows with leaf carved impost strings. Gables with decorative roundels break the cut brick eaves. The corner has a 3 tiered wood oriel ornately decorated with quatrefoil top lights to casements and panelled superstructure with deep cornice breaking through the eaves. Important corner site.”

Google Street View picture...

 

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(2) 1-7, Constitution Hill. (HB Sale Building)

Description from Historic England...

1-7, CONSTITUTION HILL B19, Non Civil Parish - 1210235 | Historic England

List entry 1210235. Grade II Listed Building: 1-7, Constitution Hill B19. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

“CONSTITUTION HILL 1. 5104 City Centre B19 Nos 1 to 7 (odd) SP 0687 NE 25/5 25.2.81 II 2. 1896 built as works and offices for H B Sale, architects William Doubleday and Shaw. Narrow triangular site with Hampton Street. Four storeys, dark red brick elevations, terracota dressed, with swept shaped gables, the dominating feature of the design is the striking 5 storey circular tower at the apex of the site, faced in red terracotta. The upper floors are corbelled out from the base and are richly ornamented with freely handled decorated forms terminating in a galleried cupola that is of transitional Spanish Romanesque derivation (Salamanca a Zamora). Shafted first floor windows, and bold ogee arches and drips to 2nd floor. Between the second and third floors lush almost Richardsonian floral decoration setting off the initials of H B Gale in large sinuous caps. Medieval heads projecting from roundel plaques in spandrels of first floor window arches. The swept gable side elevations have lively fenestration principally on tripartite theme: segmental arcading containing ground floor windows and doors; group of 2 and 3 light windows with lobed shaped over arches on first floor and round arched galleried windows to upper floors. Parapet heightened between gables on Hampton Street. The building holds a very commanding position in the townscape.”

Picture taken about 10 years ago...

Former HB Sale factory, Constitution Hill - Old Birmingham

By Pedrocut.

www.ipernity.com

 

[Pedrocut]

(3) 100 and 101, Bath Street

Description from Historic England...
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1075750

“BATH STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B4 Nos 100 and 101 SP 0787 NW 26/3 II 2. Circa 1840-40, works, on corner with Loveday Street. Two and a half storeys red brick, plain side elevation but given monumental stucco front to Bath Street as if for a chapel. Three bays with centre slightly recessed. Quoin pilasters framing bays through 2 storeys up to deep frieze with string and moulded cornice with blocking course raised as block pediment over recessed centre. Plain iron framed small pane windows, panels between storeys on outer bays. Doorway full width of centre bay and in antis with Tuscan pilasters and plain entablature. Double panelled doors with marginal glazed rectangular fanlight, approached by flight of steps.”

The picture on Historic England is from 1999, but in the present Google Street view it shows the building front much smarter.


The Forum has a Bath St. Thread...

Bath Street Birmingham 4

Does anyone have any old photographs of this Street. Thanks.

birminghamhistory.co.uk

Pictures from Mike’s post showing old pictures can be seen here...

Bath Street Birmingham 4

Does anyone have any old photographs of this Street. Thanks.

birminghamhistory.co.uk

The map shows Bath St. around 1900 and the preset Street View. It used to run from Snow Hill to Loveday St, but now only a small section is left.

 

[Katrina]

(41) The Bulls Head Public House, Loveday Street.

Description from Historic England...

THE BULLS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, Non Civil Parish - 1291450 | Historic England

List entry 1291450. Grade II Listed Building: The Bulls Head Public House. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

“LOVEDAY STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B4 The Bull's Head Public House SP 0787 NW 26/5 23.2.81 II GV 2. Late C18 or circa 1800 a three storey red brick corner house with modest mid C19 public house front on ground floor. One bay to Loveday Street and three to Price Street with 2 storey 2 bay rear wing. Plain well proportioned Venetian window to first floor with architrave moulded and keystone, renewed glazing bars to central sash. Small second floor window in flush architrave, 2 x 3 panes, shaped stucco head to flat arch with grooved voussoirs and keystone. The return front has 4 x 4 frame sashes to first floor with grooved flat stucco arches and prominent keystones. The centre window on record floor is blind. Modest pilastered public house windows and door to both fronts with panelled risers to windows. Raised doorways on Price Street have floral decoration to capitals of pilasters. The wing has 2 camber headed flush framed first floor windows and the brickwork is of the same build as No 2 Price Street. A well preserved and virtually unique survival with No 44 of a domestic building of this date by the city centre.”

Hi Thank you for this, my 4 x grandfather ran the pub in the 1800's. So please it is still open following Rose the landlady's retirement last year.

 

[Lady Penelope]

Pedro's post #53 - During the late 1800's this building was known as Victoria Hall and my great uncle, Joe, boxed there together with champion boxer Charley Norton.

 

[idwod]

Hi Thank you for this, my 4 x grandfather ran the pub in the 1800's. So please it is still open following Rose the landlady's retirement last year.

Looking forward to reopening post pandemic so I can make a trip and follow in my great grandparents' and great great grandparents' footprints to drink in this pub at the top of their road.

 

[mikejee]

You will be made very welcome there

 

[Katrina]

(41) The Bulls Head Public House, Loveday Street.

Description from Historic England...

THE BULLS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, Non Civil Parish - 1291450 | Historic England

List entry 1291450. Grade II Listed Building: The Bulls Head Public House. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

historicengland.org.uk

“LOVEDAY STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B4 The Bull's Head Public House SP 0787 NW 26/5 23.2.81 II GV 2. Late C18 or circa 1800 a three storey red brick corner house with modest mid C19 public house front on ground floor. One bay to Loveday Street and three to Price Street with 2 storey 2 bay rear wing. Plain well proportioned Venetian window to first floor with architrave moulded and keystone, renewed glazing bars to central sash. Small second floor window in flush architrave, 2 x 3 panes, shaped stucco head to flat arch with grooved voussoirs and keystone. The return front has 4 x 4 frame sashes to first floor with grooved flat stucco arches and prominent keystones. The centre window on record floor is blind. Modest pilastered public house windows and door to both fronts with panelled risers to windows. Raised doorways on Price Street have floral decoration to capitals of pilasters. The wing has 2 camber headed flush framed first floor windows and the brickwork is of the same build as No 2 Price Street. A well preserved and virtually unique survival with No 44 of a domestic building of this date by the city centre.”

We had a meeting of long lost cousins in The Bull today over a very nice lunch. Still going strong after Rose the landlady's retirement. Owned in the 1800's by my 4 x grandfather Joseph Showell and his family.