The Antelope Public House

BIRMINGHAM STRATFORD ROAD SP 08 SE 12/10008 No 512, The Antelope Public House II Public house. 1922 by Holland W Hobbiss for Mitchells and Butlers Brewery. English garden wall bond brown brick with diaperwork in the parapet and with painted stone dressings. Tiled hipped roof with ridge cresting and moulded stone coping to parapet. Brick axial and end stacks. Plan: Corner site with square plan public bar at front and wing at rear facing Baker Street containing 2 smoke rooms. Domestic Revival style. Exterior: 2 storeys almost symmetrical 3-bay front facing Stratford Road. Central round arch doorway in 3 orders, one with interlacing moulding and with billet hood mould; ovolo-moulded 2-light stone mullion-transom windows to left and right linked by band which rises to large panel on first floor above doorway with relief of an antelope superimposed over a tree (by William Bloye) with inscriptive 'The Antelope' below. Two similar first floor windows but without transoms, the left-hand 3-lights. Raised panel in parapet with name of Brewery 'Mitchells and Butlers'. South return has pair of 2-light windows on ground floor, three 3-light windows above and sun dial in parapet at centre with pedimental canopy, above which rises a large stack with moulded stone base to shaft. Rear wing to right set back at an angle has 2:1:1:2 range of 2-light mullion-transom windows and 3-centred arch doorway in one stone frame on ground floor and gabled half- dormers breaking deep eaves above. All windows have been replaced and only the transom lights of smoke-room windows retain their leaded panes. Interior: Public bar has tall panelled dado with carved arrises and cornice, simple linenfold panels over small stone chimneypiece; panelled bar front and central wooden pier (ventilation duct) with carved arrises, lion masks and spreading capital with intersection grille tracery. The smoke-room has Adam type plaster ceiling, panelled bar front and dado. Source: A Crawford, M Dunn and R Thorne, Birmingham Pubs 1880 to 1939.

Listing NGR: SP0922783953