THE ABBEY PUBLIC HOUSE

THE ABBEY PUBLIC HOUSE, THIMBLEMILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380334
Date first listed:: 31-May-2000
List Entry Name:: THE ABBEY PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE ABBEY PUBLIC HOUSE, THIMBLEMILL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380334
Date first listed:: 31-May-2000
List Entry Name:: THE ABBEY PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE ABBEY PUBLIC HOUSE, THIMBLEMILL ROAD

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

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE ABBEY PUBLIC HOUSE, THIMBLEMILL ROAD

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:: SP 01788 86643

Details

SP08NW THIMBLEMILL ROAD 1868/9/10022 Bearwood 31-MAY-00 The Abbey Public House

II

Public house. 1931; by Edwin Francis Reynolds of Wood and Kendrick and Edwin F. Reynolds of Birmingham. Buff-coloured brick in Flemish bond and with some stone dressings. Clay plain tile hipped roof with modillion eaves cornice and segmental pedimented dormers. Tall brick axial stacks with arched panels. PLAN: Large central public bar, flanked by smoke-rooms, and with dining room behind; at the rear a terraced courtyard with a loggia at the back. Neo-Georgian style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 1:7:1 bay east front, the left and right end bays with canted bays on the ground floor, 15-pane sashes on ground floor, 9-pane sashes on first floor, in moulded cases; central stone doorway with bolection architrave and pediment, doorways to left and right with overlights. At rear [W] flanking hipped wings with single-storey flat roof range between, facing terraced walled courtyard with loggia at back [W] with pairs of columns. South side 2:1 bays, the right advanced and with canted bay on ground floor. Sash windows complete with glazing bars. INTERIOR: Public bar has bar counter with panelled front and bar back with paired pilasters and segmental pediment over central bay. Smoke-rooms with chimneypieces, the mixed smoke-room has good chimneypiece with moulded shaped wooden architrave and blue and white tiles and upholstered benches. The interior joinery might be the work of Peter de Waals of Daneway, Gloucestershire. Stairs with stick balusters to landlord's flat which has wooden chimneypiece. SOURCE: Oliver, Basil, The Renaissance of the English Public House [1947], pp 88 and 89.

Listing NGR: SP0178886643

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Oliver, B, The Renaissance of the English Public House, (1947), 88,89

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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.