Protected interwar pubs
Biggin Hall Hotel, Coventry
Biggin Hall Hotel, Coventry, was listed for the following reasons:
Architectural interest: designed by a prominent Coventry architect, it is an accomplished rendition of the Brewers’ Tudor style.
Historic interest: a relatively early example of an inter-war ‘improved’ public house built as part of the development of Stoke as a suburb of Coventry, and designed to appeal to the ‘respectable’ middle classes.
Planning interest: the retention of its floor plan with its carefully separated spaces illustrates the ideology of the ‘improved’ pub as a respectable establishment offering both alcoholic and non-alcoholic refreshment, food and relaxation.
Intactness: the building is very well-preserved both externally and internally, and the survival of most of its historic fabric make this is an unusually complete example of a public house of this date.
