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Market Tavern
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The Market Tavern was situated at 210-212
Moseley Street. This grade-II listed Victorian tile and terracotta pub was built in
1899/1900 and is on the CAMRA list of historic pub interiors. Also known as
The Dog & Partridge. |
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Listed
building details: |
Public house. 1899-1900, with minor late C20 alterations. By
Jones and Lister Lea for the Holt Brewery Company. Red brick with terracotta
detailing (the terracotta thought to have been supplied by the Hathern
Station Brick and Terracotta Company of Loughborough). Slate roof with coped
gables. Brick axial stacks.
PLAN: Prominent corner site with main entrance (to public
bar) at the angle of the 2 elevations, passage doorway to Moseley Street
(left) and doorways to outdoor sales, hall and rear smoke room to Birchall
Street (right). Eclectic style with Flemish and Art Nouveau detailing.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 1:1:1:1 bays to Moseley Street and 1:2 bays to Birchall
Street, each elevation with steeply-pitched gables to slightly advanced
bays, and with canted corner with louvred octagonal cupola above an angled
oriel above a semi-circular arch-headed doorway. Terracotta-faced ground
floors to left and right elevations have segmental arch-headed windows and
semi-circular arch headed doorways with raised voussoirs and pilaster shafts
between, and fascia and dentilled cornice above. Ground floor windows have
leaded panes and stained glass. Gabled bays break forward with 3-light
windows to first floor, the entablatures with arabesques and a cartouche in
semi-circular pediments; narrow semi-window pedimented window between and
large lunette in the gables above with raised voussoirs. Above, a pilaster
extends from each key block through the gable to a finial above. Below each
lunette is a strapwork apron.
INTERIOR: Minton tiled interior with frieze in public bar,
passages, smoke room and stairs. Public bar has contemporary bar and arcaded
bar-back with balustrade and clocks above, and mirrored panels behind.
Entrance lobby to public bar, which has ceiling lined in Lincrusta paper.
Smoke-room has contemporary fireplace, and decorative glass in rear window.
Staircase with moulded balusters and ornate newels. First and second floors
refurbished following fire damage in 1984.The building was known as the Dog
and Partridge Public House from 1829 to 1984. A well-detailed and
prominently sited example of an imposing turn-of-the-century Birmingham
public house by an important local architectural practice specialising in
public house design. |
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Picture source: David Gray |
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