How do you rebuild the Crooked House pub?

By Tom Lowe2024-03-11T06:00:00

South Staffordshire Council has ordered the owners of Britain’s wonkiest pub to recreate it as it was before its unlawful demolition. Donald Insall Associates and Purcell explain how they would approach what has become one of the country’s most unlikely - and high profile - restoration projects

Has there ever been a construction project quite like this? Last week, South Staffordshire council ordered The Crooked House pub, in the village of Himley in the Black Country, to be rebuilt as it had been before it was unlawfully demolished. It was a standard issue enforcement notice, giving the owners three years to complete the job.

But this is no normal building. It was “Britain’s wonkiest pub”. It was severely deformed, leaning at a 15 degree angle after nearly two centuries of subsidence. And it is now a pile of bricks.

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