The OldCrown

The Old Crown stands on Deritend High Street in Digbeth and is generally reckoned to be one of the oldest secular buildings left in Birmingham, with parts of the black-and-white timber frame said to date from around 1368, though most of the current structure was rebuilt in the early sixteenth century as the guildhall and school of St John Deritend. The Grade II* listed building has survived Civil War damage, a bombing raid twenty metres away in the Second World War and repeated demolition proposals. The Brennan family bought the pub in 1991 and spent around two million pounds restoring it before reopening in 1998; it continues to trade under their company, The Old Crown Limited. The pub serves cask ales and a pub food menu across its timber-framed rooms and function spaces, with bedrooms let upstairs, and sits at the edge of Digbeth's creative and industrial quarter, a short walk from the Custard Factory and Bullring.