The Tyburn Public House (Including Outbuilding And Courtyard Wall To East)

BIRMINGHAM KINGSBURY ROAD SF 19 SW 4/10009 The Tyburn House Public House (including outbuilding and courtyard wall to east) II

Public house. 1930 by Bateman and Bateman for Ansells Brewery. Coursed ironstone rubble with stone dressing. Collyweston stone roof with coped gable ends. Stone axial and gable-end stacks with moulded caps.

Plan: L-shaped or plan comprising 2 long 1-storey and attic ranges with 2-storey and attic manager's house at end of right-hand (E) wing. C17 Domestic Revival Style.

Exterior: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 9-window range plus 2 windows set back on right behind courtyard wall. Large 2 and 4-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion transom windows with continuous stringcourse and low blocking course above; bay 4 breaks forward and manager's house on right has hipped roof with raised parapet, moulded stone Tudor arch doorways, central doorway to bar has late C20 porch with canopy on columns. Small hipped dormers. Courtyard wall on right with stone gate-piers and gable end of outbuilding on right. Left-hand (SW) return: asymmetrical 10-window range; large 1 and 4-light ovolo- moulded mullion-transom windows, bays 3, 7 and 9 brake forward and moulded Tudor arch, doorways in bays 1, 5, 6 and 10, those in bays 5 and 6 with late C20 porches with columns. 3 small hipped dormers, low single storey service wing projecting on left. All casement windows with square leaded panes. Rainwater leads dated 1930.

Interior: Thistle Bar has moulded plaster ceiling, panelling and stone chimneypiece with moulded Tudor arch, panelled border and trailing vine cornice. Former 'Music Lounge' has panelled and coved ceiling and in another lounge a stone chimneypiece with symmetrical arch on moulded piers and carved foliage cornice.

Note: Tyburn House is a good example of a large road house type of public house. Source: A Crawford, M Dunn and R Thorne, Birmingham Pubs 1880 to 1939.

Listing NGR: SP1366191336