Old Blue Ball Public House
OLD BLUE BALL PUBLIC HOUSE, 19, HALL END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077110
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Old Blue Ball Public House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD BLUE BALL PUBLIC HOUSE, 19, HALL END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1077110
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Blue Ball Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD BLUE BALL PUBLIC HOUSE, 19, HALL END
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OLD BLUE BALL PUBLIC HOUSE, 19, HALL END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sandwell (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 98598 95462
Details
SANDWELL MB HALL END SO 9895 SE Wednesbury 11/87 No 19 (Old Blue Ball Public House)
II
Public house. Early to mid-C19. Rendered brick with slate roof. Two storeys. Two bays. On the ground floor are timber canted bay windows linked by a timber fascia. The first floor windows are sashed with glazing bars. Door between bays. Chimneys on gables in front of ridge. The pub is known locally as "Spittle's" because of its former landlord Jonah Spittle (1765 - 1844) who organised cock fights on adjacent land and was one of the subjects of the well-known broadside ballad "Wedgebury Cocking":
"At Wedgebury there was a cocking, A match between Newton and Scroggins, The colliers and nailors left work And to Old Spittle's went jogging. To see this noble sport, Many noble men resorted, And though they'd little money, With that they freely sported ....."
"The cock pit was near to the church, an ornament unto the town. On one side was an old coal pit, The other well gors'd around ....."
(Raven, J: The Urban and Industrial Songs of the Black Country and Birmingham, 1977, pp 110 - 115).
Listing NGR: SO9859895462
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219299
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Raven, J, The Urban and Industrial Songs of the Black Country and Birmingham, (1977), 110-115
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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