Pub site for new homes

One of Stourbridge’s most famous landmark pubs looks set to be torn down to make way for new homes.

David Payne Homes has submitted plans to demolish the Pedmore House, in Ham Lane, Pedmore, which has been a landmark in Stourbridge for many years, and replace it with 12 four-bedroom homes.

Residents and historians from the area are disappointed that another of the region’s best-known pubs could be lost.

Pedmore House will become the latest of the region’s high-profile pubs to be lost following the demolition of the Stewponey, in Stourton, and the Fighting Cocks in Wolverhampton.

Members of Dudley Council’s development control committee are being asked to consider the plans for three five bedroom homes and nine four bedroom homes.

Pedmore House was put on the market in June, but the only interest was from developers wanting to build homes on the land.

It is believed to have attracted a price of between £2.5 million and £3 million.

It was built in the early part of the 1900s, along with a series of other grand homes in the area, and was originally called Oakland.

The name changed to Pedmore House after the Second World War when it became a public house.

Stourbridge historian Dr Paul Collins said the name was as famous as the actual building itself and it was sad another of the area’s famous pubs could be lost.

“In historic terms the building itself has been altered too many times but as a famous landmark it will be a real loss if the plans are approved,” he said.

“If the housing estate goes ahead, the building must first be properly recorded and catalogued for historical record and I would ask the name Pedmore House remain somewhere in the new development, perhaps as a street name. The loss of a landmark is always sad.”

David Payne Homes Ltd, which also developed the Stewponey pub site, refused to comment on the plans.