New Plans for The Old Hall, Tamworth Road, Keresley
A new planning application has been submitted to restore and extend the Old Hall in Tamworth Road, Keresley.
The plans are for a hotel, banqueting facility, restaurant and spa. The listed main hall and courtyard will be retained and restored after previous owners had altered internal floor levels. Buildings added in the 1990s will be demolished to make way for a contemporary two-storey accommodation for offices and toilets at ground level with bedrooms above to create an improved façade to Tamworth Road.
To greatly reduce the impact on the Green Belt a subterranean development will contain a large function room, 40 bedrooms and a spa. The new accommodation will be arranged around two sunken courtyards. The location of the underground features have been chosen to avoid any adverse impact on the protected trees in the grounds. The former kitchen garden is "re-instated" to provide an interesting walled garden with glass pyramid structures providing natural light to the function room below.
The Society is supportive of the new plans. We appreciate that this is a major development in the Green Belt, but we feel that plans mitigate against the main impacts on the green belt with the subterannean development and offer the best potential for restoring the listed building.
You can look at the plans for the project here.
The Old Hall is one of the building that the Coventry Society considers to be at risk! Our main page on this site is here.