The Endwood is a disused

grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

public house A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and was ...

on Hamstead Road, in the

Handsworth Wood Handsworth Wood is a suburb of Birmingham in the West Midlands County, England. Located within the metropolitan county of the West Midlands since 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, it was previously a part of the county of Staf ...

district of

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, England. The three-storey building was constructed as a private residence, Church Hill House, in 1820, when Handsworth Wood was part of

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. It has a

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finish, a slate roof and porch with

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s. Around the 1880s, it was occupied by the Muntz family,

George Frederic Muntz George Frederick Muntz (26 November 1794 – 30 July 1857) was an Business magnate, industrialist from Birmingham, England and a Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for the Birmin ...

' second son William Henry Muntz having married Alice Parker, the second daughter of its occupant, George Parker, in 1846. It subsequently became a hotel, known as the Hill House Hotel and then the Endwood Hotel, before being purchased in 1937 by the brewers Butlers of

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, who used it as a pub. That company, and thus the Endwood, was acquired by

Mitchells & Butlers Mitchells & Butlers plc (also referred to as "M&B") runs circa 1,784 managed pubs, bars and restaurants throughout the United Kingdom. The company's headquarters are in Birmingham, England. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange an ...

in 1960. It was given listed building status in July 1982. A 2001 proposal to convert the building into flats was dismissed. In June 2015, a

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was submitted to Birmingham City Council, for use of the building as an education centre. The building sits immediately opposite the site of the defunct Handsworth Wood railway station (1896–1941), and the railway line passes beneath the house in a short tunnel. St Mary's Church (

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, rebuilt 1820) and

Handsworth Park Handsworth Park (originally Victoria Park) is a park in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England. It lies 15 minutes by bus from the centre of Birmingham and comprises 63 acres (25 hectares) of landscaped grass slopes, including a large boat ...

(1880s) are also nearby to the south, as is the A4040 road to the north.

References

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