Swan and Mitre Public House
SWAN AND MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE, LICHFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234169
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Swan and Mitre Public House
- Statutory Address:
- SWAN AND MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE, LICHFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234169
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Swan and Mitre Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAN AND MITRE PUBLIC HOUSE, LICHFIELD ROAD
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:
- SWAN AND MITRE 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 08843 89562
Details
BIRMINGHAM LICHFIELD ROAD SP 08 NE Swan and Mitre Public House 7/10002 II GV Public house. 1898-9 by James and Lister Lea for the Holt Brewery Company. Red brick and terracotta (terracotta probably from Hathern Station Brick and Terrcotta Company of Loughborough). Slate roof with gabled ends. Brick axial and gable end stacks.
Plan: Situated on corner site with corner and front entrances to the bars and end entrances to the smoke room at the back and stairs. Dutch Renaissance style.
Exterior: 2 storeys. 2:1:2 bay Lichfield Road elevation and 2:1:2 bay right hand return to Holborn Hill with canted corner carrying oriel with wooden cupola above with ogee dome with tall spike finial. The 2-window bays break forward and have shaped gables. The ornate terracotta ground floor has large moulded elliptically arched windows with keystones, rooks, shafts and balustered wooden mullions; the narrower doorways are similarly detailed but with round arches; roundels above the doors and spandrels above window arches with an entablature above that which continues around the corner oriel, the soffit of which has terracotta foliage decoration. Paved first floor windows have ornate terracotta pediments with swagged console brackets. Windows have leaded panes with some stained glass. Panelled doors with semi-circular fanlights. The right hand 2 bays of Holborn Hill elevation forms plain red brick rear wing.
Interior: The bars have Jacobean style wooden bar backs and bar fronts with fluted pilasters, arched mirrors and clocks above. The smoke-room has an imported wooden chimneypiece with bulbous colonettes flanking the overmantel mirror.The passage and stairs have tiled walls and the staircase has turned newels and balusters.
Note: Formerly known as The Swanpool Tavern.
Source: A Crawford, M Dunn and R Thorne, Birmingham pubs 1880-1939.
Listing NGR: SP0884389562
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409973
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crawford, A, Dunn, M, Thorne, R, Birmingham Pubs 1880-1939, (1986)
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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