Grade II listed pubs in England

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Answer 1

Cross Keys Inn

Cross Keys Inn

The Cross Keys Inn is a Grade II listed public house in Midford Road in the Odd Down area of Bath in the English ceremonial county of Somerset. It is now a free house and restaurant and is a Grade II listed building, having been added to the register on 11 August 1972.

The current building was erected in the late 17th or early 18th century. The site was owned by Bath Priory until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It was then owned by Hugh Sexey. An inn is known to have stood on the site in 1718 when it is described in a document as "a new erected tenement or dwelling house...now a Public House on Odwood Down". At that time, the lease cost forty-two pounds and there was an annual rent charge of one pound ten shillings. In the mid 18th century the lease was held by Ralph Allen who was the postmaster of Bath and made a fortune by reforming the postal delivery system. The inn was situated strategically on a crossroads, with major roads going to Bristol, Warminster, Bath and Wells. It served as a coaching inn.

The front of the building was altered in the 19th century.Sexey's Hospital was the owner until 1896 when it was sold to Oakhill Brewery. It remained under the control of breweries or pub management companies until 2014, when the freehold was purchased privately. It is now a free house and restaurant.

The building has late seventeenth century or early eighteenth century origins, and was extensively modified in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was built out of squared off rubble stone and has a roof of Roman tiles. Originally the building was a single room deep with two gable ends and a stair at the centre of the rear wall. It had coped front and end gables, with cross saddle-stones, and an ashlar chimney stack at each end. Since then, right and left wings have been added to the building at the rear and an ashlar extension with entrance added at the front. The building consists of three storeys and a cellar, the front extension is two storeys high and has a flat roof. There is a central tall chimney stack at the front, between the two gable ends. The interior of the building is reported to have an original staircase and fireplace.

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Answer 2

Crown Hotel, Liverpool

The Crown Hotel is a public house on the corner of Lime Street and Skelhorne Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

The Crown Hotel was built in 1905 in Art Nouveau style. It is constructed in brick with some stucco, and has marble facing on the ground floor. The building is in three storeys with an attic. It has two fronts, one on Lime Street with two bays, the other on Skelhorne Street, with three bays. Between the bays are pilasters rising to the top of the building, each surmounted by a cornice. On the ground floor are doorways flanked by windows. The Lime Street front and the middle and right bays on the Skelhorne Street front contain bow windows on each of the top two floors. Between the floors is inscribed "CROWN" "HOTEL" in elaborate lettering. The top two floors of the left bay in Skelhorne Street are occupied by a complex panel containing, in three lines, "WALKERS ALES WARRINGTON". Each of the attics contains a lunette window over which is an elaborate architrave. The interior contains moulded coffered ceilings and much engraved glass.

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Answer 3

The Crown Inn, Birmingham

The Crown Inn, Birmingham

The Crown Inn is a public house in Broad Street, Birmingham, England. Built in 1781, it was rebuilt in 1883, 1930 and 1991. It is Grade II listed.

It was the brewery tap for William Butler's brewery, which Victorian building survived at the rear of The Crown until 1987.

It sits alongside a Birmingham Canal Navigations canal. and is nestled within the outline of the International Convention Centre.

The sash windows on the first and second floors are from the 1781 building. The architect for the 1883 work was William Jenkins, for the 1930 work, E F Reynolds, and in Alan Goodwin & Associates, who added a west façade described by the architectural critic Andy Foster as "cheap".

As of 2016^[update], it has operated under the name "Reflex".

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The Dirty Duck, Stratford-upon-Avon

Coordinates: 52°11′26″N 1°42′17″W / 52.190685°N 1.704784°W / 52.190685; -1.704784

The Dirty Duck, also known as The Black Swan, is a pub located on Waterside in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.

It has existed as a pub since 1738 and has been known as The Black Swan since 1776, although it may have been given this name earlier.

However, the pub is more commonly known as The Dirty Duck. It is unclear where this name originates from. One reason could be that it was given this name by brewery families who played darts in the pub. Another reason could be that actors nicknamed it The Dirty Duck. It is the only pub in England which has a licence under its two names.

The pub was originally three buildings dating from the 15th century before becoming a single property. One of the buildings became a pub in 1738. A house next door was integrated into the pub in 1866 and in 1937 the pub was extended into a third property. The building has a Grade II listing, meaning it is of 'special interest'.

One of the former managers is Ben Shepherd, father of actor Simon Shepherd.

The Dirty Duck is located close to two Royal Shakespeare Company theatres, namely, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and the Swan Theatre and is frequented by actors performing at the theatres and theatre critics. It is also a popular pub for theatregoers. As a result, it has become intrinsically linked to the RSC, described by The Telegraph as "the unofficial licensed extension of the Royal Shakespeare Company".

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Duke of York Inn, Elton

The Duke of York Inn is a Grade II listed public house at Main Street, Elton, Derbyshire DE4 2BW.

It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

It was built in the 19th century.

Coordinates: 53°08′43″N 1°40′03″W / 53.145267°N 1.667547°W / 53.145267; -1.667547

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Duke of York, Ganwick Corner

The Duke of York is a grade II listed public house in Barnet Road, Ganwick Corner, to the south of Potters Bar.

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Answer 7

The Eight Bells, Hatfield

The Eight Bells is a grade II listed public house in Park Street, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. The building has a timber frame from around the sixteenth century and a nineteenth-century front.

The pub has associations with the author Charles Dickens. Dickens is known to have stayed there in the 1830s, and it is believed to be the pub in Hatfield visited by his fictional character Bill Sikes.

Coordinates: 51°45′45″N 0°12′49″W / 51.7625°N 0.2135°W / 51.7625; -0.2135

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The Endwood

The Endwood

The Endwood is a disused grade II listed public house on Hamstead Road, in the Handsworth Wood district of Birmingham, England.

The three-storey building was constructed as a private residence, Church Hill House, in 1820, when Handsworth Wood was part of Staffordshire. It has a stucco finish, a slate roof and porch with doric columns.

Around the 1880s, it was occupied by the Muntz family,George Frederic Muntz' second son William Henry Muntz having married Alice Parker, the second daughter of its occupant, George Parker, in 1846.

It subsequently became a hotel, known as the Hill House Hotel and then the Endwood Hotel, before being purchased in 1937 by the brewers Butlers of Wolverhampton, who used it as a pub. That company, and thus the Endwood, was acquired by Mitchells & Butlers in 1960.

It was given listed building status in July 1982.

In June 2015, a planning application was submitted to Birmingham City Council, for use of the building as an education centre. A 2001 proposal to convert the building into flats was dismissed.

The building sits immediately opposite the site of the defunct Handsworth Wood railway station (1896–1941), and the railway line passes beneath the house in a short tunnel. St Mary's Church (Norman, rebuilt 1820) and Handsworth Park (1880s) are also nearby to the south, as is the A4040 road to the north.

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Answer 9

Five Mile House, Duntisbourne Abbots

The Five Mile House is a former public house on Old Gloucester Road, Duntisbourne Abbots, Gloucestershire, England. It was built in the 17th century and is grade II listed.

The pub was on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

In 1891 and 1903 the pub was referred to as the Old Inn.

Five Mile House

Information: Documents found from 1891 and 1903 referred to the pub as the Old Inn.

The Five Mile House is a 300 year old coaching inn set high in the Cotswolds on the old Roman Road - Ermin Street.

The Five Mile House had been owned and operated by the Ruck family since the 1930’s and had hardly altered in the intervening 65 years. It was known for its historic features of bare wood floors, open fires and wooden seating. A small bar lead through to the tap room with its high-backed settles and wood burning stoves.

John Burrows once said: "I remember Ivy Ruck of the Five Mile House at Duntisbourne Abbots with much respect and affection. I first visited the pub when I was a young man and her father Fred kept it. Latterly I used to call in on cold winter’s nights for a pint of Courage’s Ale straight from the barrel. Sometimes I was her only customer, and I often thought how vulnerable she was there on her own as a single woman.”

When the landlady, Ivy Ruck, died in 1995 there were fears that this totally unspoilt pub would close forever

The classic country pub was saved and was reopened again in 1997 when the Carrier family bought the Five Mile, and was run successfully for many years. Unfortunately the re-routing of the A419 diverted much of the passing custom away, and despite great effort to remain viable the pub closed finally in 2015, and converted to a private residence where it is being sympathetically converted to a private home.

Documented history.

Owner in 1891: Mrs Marianne Sutton (free from brewery tie)

Rateable Value in 1891: £14.10s.0d.

Type of licence in 1891: Alehouse

Owner in 1903: Mrs E.M. Cumberland (free from brewery tie)

Rateable Value in 1903: £14.10s.0d.

Type of licence in 1903: Alehouse

Closing time in 1903: 10pm

Landlords: 1856 Mrs A. Andrews

1861 George Telling (listed as the Old Inn in 1861 census. George had left the pub by 1867)

1891, 1906 Jesse Short

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Answer 10

The Fleece Inn

The Fleece Inn

Coordinates: 52°5′32″N 1°51′56″W / 52.09222°N 1.86556°W / 52.09222; -1.86556

The Fleece Inn is a public house in Bretforton, in the Vale of Evesham, Worcestershire, England: the half-timbered building, over six hundred years old, has been a pub since 1848, and is now owned by the National Trust. The inn was extensively damaged by fire on 27 February 2004, and after repairs and rebuilding were completed the Fleece officially reopened on 18 June 2005. The pub holds an annual asparagus festival asparagus and auction while there are three morris sides based at the pub: Pebworth, Belle d'Vain and Asum Gras. There is a regular folk night plus concerts and weddings in the medieval barn.

Owned by the National Trust, The Fleece Inn was originally built in the early 15th century as a longhouse (an early type of farmhouse accommodating both livestock and humans) by a prosperous yeoman farmer called Byrd. It later became a pub, which was rebuilt in the 17th century and remained in the Byrd family until 1977, when Lola Taplin bequeathed it to the National Trust. Lola was a direct descendant of Mr Byrd, and lived her entire life at the Fleece. She died at 77, having run the pub on her own for the last 30 years of her life.The Inn suffered serious fire damage after a fire broke out in the thatch in February 2004, and the business temporarily moved to a nearby barn during the 14 month long restoration.

Reputedly Oliver Cromwell’s pewter dinner service was exchanged on the way to the battle of Worcester and this is on display at the pub. Even if this account is not true, it is an example of 17th century Jacobean English Pewter ware.

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