Old Royal Public House

OLD ROYAL PUBLIC HOUSE, 53 AND 55, CHURCH STREET B3

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1343389
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:
Old Royal Public House
Statutory Address:
OLD ROYAL PUBLIC HOUSE, 53 AND 55, CHURCH STREET B3
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Date:
1999-08-21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1343389
Date first listed:
08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:
Old Royal Public House
Statutory Address 1:
OLD ROYAL PUBLIC HOUSE, 53 AND 55, CHURCH STREET B3

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OLD ROYAL PUBLIC HOUSE, 53 AND 55, CHURCH STREET B3

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 06804 87237

Details

CHURCH STREET 1. 5104 City Centre B3 Nos 53 and 55 (Old Royal Public House) SP 0687 SE 29/4 II GV 2. Late C19. Purple brick and terracotta. In a vaguely Loire style. Three storeys; 2 1/2 bays plus the corner entrance bay with toarelle capped by an apparently altered conical roof with lively weathervane and 3 1/2 bays on the right-hand return in Cornwall Street. The bays are divided from one another by pilasters. Ground floor arcuated. First floor with plain rectangular casements and shallow canted bay windows with arched lights and carrying balconies. Second floor windows with plain casements as on the 1st floor and, beneath the steep Dutch gables, couplets of arched window. Everywhere busy decoration with garlands, foliage and cartouches.

Listing NGR: SP0680487237

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Legacy System number:
216959
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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2025. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2025. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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