Market Hotel on Station Street Birmingham. Photo: Stephen Hartland
The Society is absolutely delighted that the Secretary of State and Historic England have agreed to back our Birmingham Conservation Adviser’s call for the listing of the former Market Hotel (now the Comfort Inn), on the corner of Station Street in Birmingham. The signature terracotta building has been listed at Grade II. The building is now the third listed building on the street.
Station Street is currently the subject of a vigorous community campaign to protect the buildings on the street which include significant cultural venues the Crown Inn (1881), Old Rep Theatre (1913) and the Electric Cinema (1909). The buildings are in a part of the city where too many Victorian buildings have already been lost.
The hotel is designed by renown local architect Thomson Plevins who also designed the Crown Inn (Grade II), also on Station Street, which was also listed earlier this year. The Crown was where Black Sabbath played their first gig, and also featured many of the heavy metal band aristocracy,
The listing for the Market Hotel can be read here.
