The Black Horse, Bristol Road South, Northfield - panoramic : 無料・フリー素材/写真
The Black Horse, Bristol Road South, Northfield - panoramic / ell brown
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| 説明 | I was heading on the bus down to Longbridge, when the bus I was on turned off from the Bristol Road.Anyway I did want to get updates of the Black Horse and this was my chance.This time took it up and close to it (not on the other side of the road due to all that traffic).The Black Horse is now owned by Wetherspoon.The following is information from the book Images of England: Birmingham Pubs by Keith TurnerThe Black Horse on the Bristol Road South in Northfield. Built by Davenports in 1929, this was the epitome of a mock-Tudor Midlands mansion house re-worked as a public house - complete with bowling green and separate refreshment room - with its stepped roofline jutting bays and gables, towering brick chimney stacks and silver-grey half-timbering (later repainted jet black as the false image of Elizabethan building has it). It is undoubtedly one of the grandest buildings of its kind in the whole of England, even seventy years on, though its present-day setting on a major road detracts somewhat from its majesty. The architect was Franics Goldsbrough of the firm Bateman and Bateman who were noted for their work on a number of other local pubs.It is a Grade II listed building.Similar information, but from Heritage Gateway.1929 by Francis Goldsbrough of Bateman and Bateman for Davenport's. The grandestof the post first world war "reformed pubs" built on a vast scale in a picturesquehighly successful Vernacular Revival combining Midlands half timbering andCotswold stone, giving the impression, in its loose planning, of a gradualevolution from late medieval to Jacobean. The quality of detailing and materialsembodies the best of the Birmingham Arts and Crafts tradition. The lowersouth end includes the managers house, half timbered on a Cotswold stonebase, then the lavishly close studded wing with 2 gabled bays containing thehall and staircase followed by the similarly close studded main block undera massive stone tiled sweep of roof with a tall cross wing at the north endand finally a tower north wing. Cotswold stone slate roofs. Bargeboardedgables. Lattice casements in continuous ranges on the main block. Loftychimney stacks with decorated shafts. The rear elevation more restrainedbut still with a variety of half timbered gables and with parts of the roofcarried down over outshuts. The interiors have largely been modernised withlowered ceilings but to ground floor bar (originally the smoke room) retainsthe extended effect of a medieval hall. The stone carving was executed bySidney Smithin whilst the decorative woodwork including the grotesques onthe Bristol Road front was carved by Jean Hahn.The Black Horse, Northfield - British Listed BuildingsNorthfield historyThe middle of the pub.2022 Photoshop edit - had to use a 2014 photo to fill in the missing piece. |
| 撮影日 | 2011-06-24 10:45:03 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Birmingham, England, United Kingdom 地図 |