KING GEORGE V PUBLIC HOUSE

KING GEORGE V PUBLIC HOUSE, BRISTOL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389320
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-2001
List Entry Name:: KING GEORGE V PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: KING GEORGE V PUBLIC HOUSE, BRISTOL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389320
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-2001
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Aug-2001
List Entry Name:: KING GEORGE V PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: KING GEORGE V PUBLIC HOUSE, BRISTOL ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: KING GEORGE V PUBLIC HOUSE, BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH

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:: KING GEORGE V PUBLIC HOUSE, BRISTOL ROAD
Statutory Address:: KING GEORGE V PUBLIC HOUSE, BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH

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:: SP0127278216

Details

997/0/10365 31-JUL-01

BRISTOL ROAD Northfield King George V Public House

II

Public house. 1935; by John Burgess Surman, for Mitchells and Butlers. Rendered brick with ashlar plinth and stone dressings. Plain tile gabled roofs. Rendered axial and lateral stacks with moulded stone caps and stone weathering to set-offs. PLAN: Butterfly plan; the central range containing the public bar, beer store and entrances; smoke rooms and the services in flanking angled wings with assembly/dining and function rooms above. Jacobean Domestic Revival style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 1:2:1:2:1 bay south front; gabled end bays at an angle are the gable ends of wings extending to the rear; smaller gable over central projection with 3-centred arch doorway with high label above carved panels and overlight above; to left and right large 4-light mullion-transom windows with 3-centred arch doorways beyond with large mullion-transom overlights; in the outer gabled bays 4-light mullion-transom windows; first floor windows smaller, all with stone frames and leaded panes. Similar windows and large lateral stack on right [E] side and on left [W] side large canted bay window with stone mullions and transoms, segmental arch carriageway with pilasters and Tudor arch doorway to left with overlight. At rear the NW wing has truncated lateral stack with weathered set-offs and stone mullion-transom windows; the other rear windows have timber mullion-transom frames with leaded panes. INTERIOR: Most of the original bar fittings on the ground floor have been replaced. On the first floor the assembly/dining room is open to a timber queen-post roof with curved braces and mouldings to the tie-beams and purlins, wall-panelling and stone 3-centred arch chimneypiece with an enriched cornice shelf and linen-fold panelling and moulded plaster heraldic lion and dog above. The function room on the first floor of the of the NW wing has a plaster barrel-vaulted ceiling with moulded ribs, wall-panelling and a stone chimneypiece with moulded 3-centred arch and carved cornice shelf. The King George V is a good example of a large Birmingham road house.

Listing NGR: SP0127278216

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Legacy System number:: 487962
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.