Villa Tavern
VILLA TAVERN, NECHELLS PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387740
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Villa Tavern
- Statutory Address:
- VILLA TAVERN, NECHELLS PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387740
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Villa Tavern
- Statutory Address 1:
- VILLA TAVERN, NECHELLS PARK 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:
- VILLA TAVERN, NECHELLS PARK 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 09234 89224
Details
SP 08 NE
997/7/10209
BIRMINGHAM
NECHELLS PARK ROAD
Villa Tavern
II
Public house. Rebuilt 1924-5 by Matthew J. Butcher of Birmingham for Ansells Brewery Ltd. Red brick with buff terracotta detailing. Cement tiled roof. Ridge and eaves stacks. PLAN. L-shaped plan, occupying street corner site, with public bar and club axially placed, and with small smoke room behind. EXTERIOR. 2 storeys, with 6-bay frontage to Holborn Hill, a 3-bay frontage to Nechells Park Road, and between, at the corner angle, doorway set beneath a shallow semi-circular arched canopy. Nechells Park Road elevation with a canted bay window and two entrance doors. Holborn Hill elevation with off-centre paired doorways, 3, 2-light windows to the left and 2, 2-light windows to the right. On the first floor flat pilasters with alternating brick and terracotta blocks define the bays. Terracotta head and cill bands , and above, a cornice and deep plain parapet which is broken by segmental pediments, one to each frontage, and a chimney gablet to the Holborn Hill elevation. INTERIOR. Little- altered plan based around 3 public rooms, all retaining fixed wall seating and fire surrounds ,and contemporary public bar counter and back with round arches and mirror glass. Half-glazed panelled doors with rectangular overlights, throughout, those to public rooms with etched glass identifying their function. Tiled flooring to entrance lobbies and hall. Green and buff tiled dado to the Holborn Hill entrance lobby and hall area behind. Bell-pushes in the smoke and club rooms. In the bar, smoke room and hall raised bands of decoration in the ceilings follows the shape of the rooms. This public house is unusual for the survival of its 1925 plan and the contemporary fittings. Architecturally it displays the greater simplicity associated with post-First World War public houses but the internal arrangements are reminiscent of smaller Victorian pubs rather than the inter-War 'improved' variety. SOURCE: Birmingham Archives, Birmingham Building Plans 38518.
Listing NGR: SP0923489224
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475729
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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