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Kirby House is an 18th-century building which is now Grade II* listed. There are 24 Grade II* listed buildings in the City of Coventry. In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a building or structure of special historical or architectural importance. These buildings are legally protected from demolition, as well as from any extensions or alterations that would adversely affect the building ...
Gosford St. Coventry (near Cox Street) painted by Sydney John Bunney on 18 May 1916 The weaving industries declined after 1860, giving rise to cycle manufacture, and to the car industry. [ 4 ] One of the notable relics of this is the Humber Motor Building at the junction of Sky Blue Way, which exists at present as Lloyd TSB Bank .
The Cathedral Church of St Michael was almost completely destroyed in the Coventry Blitz of 1940; its ruins are now a Grade I listed building. There are 19 Grade I listed buildings in the City of Coventry. In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a building or structure of special historical or architectural importance. These buildings are legally protected from demolition, as well as from ...
FarGo Village is a creative quarter on Far Gosford Street, Coventry, England.Costing £5 million [1] and opened on 27 September 2014, [2] it is a mixture of mobile catering units, small boutique style units housed in repurposed shipping containers, [3] and larger stores surrounding a marketplace area.
This Coventry Cross was erected some 40 years before the Golden Cross public house. In 1668–9 it was refurbished, painted in bright colours and smothered in gold leaf, to the point that it was painful to look at on a sunny day. It had a hexagonal base and was 57 feet high, with niches containing statues of saints and kings.
The family lived at the house until 1899 when it was sold to Edgar Turrall. Edgar Turrall (1859–1945) was the owner of the Hall for the next fifty years. [13] He was born in 1859 in Coventry and became a wealthy textile manufacturer. In 1899, at the time he bought the house, he married Kathleen Elizabeth Hollick (1872–1953).
The architectural theme around which most buildings in Coventry's post-war shopping precinct were based was set in 1948 by Donald Gibson's design for Broadgate House. It is a brick-clad building with regularly spaced windows edged with white stone, and an arcade at street level supported by stone-clad columns. [15]
The Old Windmill is a public house in Spon Street in Coventry, England. It is a Grade II Listed, 15th-century building with a history going back to around 1451 when it constructed around the trunk of a tree. [1]