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THE BRITANNIA PUBLIC HOUSE

THE BRITANNIA PUBLIC HOUSE, LICHFIELD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1234168
Date first listed:: 10-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: THE BRITANNIA PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE BRITANNIA PUBLIC HOUSE, LICHFIELD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1234168
Date first listed:: 10-Dec-1991
List Entry Name:: THE BRITANNIA PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE BRITANNIA PUBLIC HOUSE, LICHFIELD ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE BRITANNIA PUBLIC HOUSE, LICHFIELD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 08789 89517

Details

SP 08 NE BIRMINGHAM LlCHFIELD ROAD

7/10001 The Britannia Public House

10.12.91 II

Public house. 1898-1900 by Wood & Kendrick for Mitchells & Butlers Ltd. Brown glazed brick to the ground floor, buff terracotta with red-brick band between the second and third floors, red tiled roof. PLAN. Large public bar at front with smoke room behind. Large function room above. EXTERIOR. Eclectic Jacobean Renaissance style. 1:2:2:2:1 bay front, the centre 6 bays break forward in a wide, canted bay. The ground floor is faced with brown glazed bricks with inset panels of embossed tiles in the base course. Large elliptical wooden traceried window with leaded panes containing original glass. Doorways with overlights with etched glass bearing the name 'Britannia'. Above terracotta balustrades on large brackets with urn finials. First floor straight-headed windows with transoms and 2-light centre window with pilasters and pediment. Second floor with arcade of round-headed windows with keyblocks and nook shafts. Terracotta balustrade above with attic window in centre with truncated gable surmounted by the seated figure of Britannia. INTERIOR. Public bar, passage and staircase have walls entirely covered by tiles. The brown tile dado contains vertical strips of pale blue-grey embossed tiles with flowers emerging from pots; this design by Lewis F. Day and made by Maw & Co. of Jackfield. Above pale brown tiles with stylised foliage. Frieze of grey-blue and brown tiles with stylised foliage patterns. Original bar back with etched glass mirrors. Glazed wooden screen between passage and public bar and including a doorway. Mosaic floor in the passage by the stairs. Door to back room has etched glass bearing the figure of Britannia and the words 'Smoking Room'. Black and white marble chimneypiece and bell-pushes in the Smoke Room. Staircase with moulded balusters and large newels and finials. In the meeting room upstairs original fixed seating: in the centre is a seat with arm rests for the chairman at meetings of the Royal Ancient Order of Buffaloes. HISTORY. The building began as the Aston Hall Tavern in 1867 but was renamed The Britannia in 1872. Henry Mitchell & Co. bought a 99-year lease in 1896, covenanting to rebuild within ten years. It passed to Mitchells & Butlers who rebuilt it in 1899-1900. A good example of an ambitious turn-of-the-century Birmingham public house with an impressive facade and rich tiled interior. Source: A. Crawford, M. Dunn and R. Thorne, Birmingham Pubs 1880-1939 (Gloucester, 1986), pp. 90-1.

Listing NGR: SP0878989517

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Legacy System number:: 409972
Legacy System:: LBS

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Crawford, A, Dunn, M, Thorne, R, Birmingham Pubs 1880-1939, (1986)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.