Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Antelope at Wikipedia
• The Antelope official website
• Wikidata Q20031709

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