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Baring Hall Hotel

Closed Mar 2020

368 Baring Road

Grove Park

Lewisham

020 8851 2184

https://baringhallhotel.com/

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Baring Hall Hotel

Above photo, date unknown.

Baring Hall Hotel

Above postcard, date unknown.

Baring Hall Hotel 2019

Above photo, 2019.

Baring Hall 2019

Above photo 2019.

Baring Hall Hotel 2019

Above photo 2019.

Baring Hall Hotel inside

Above photo, 2019.

Baring Hall sign

Above sign left, June 1991. Sign right, date unknown.

With thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com.

Baring Hall Hotel 2021

Above photo 2021.

 

I have also seen this addressed as in Lee.

Closed due to covid and as of July 2021 the pub remains closed with no re-opening date known. Lewisham's licence register indicated the premises licence had been suspended for non-payment of annual fee. Antic, the owners, have previously stated that they were relying on gaining planning permission for a residential development on part of the car-park to make their investment in this pub viable.

 

From the https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk By J Smith, 8 May 2024.

Plans in to renovate Baring Hall Grove Park pub and hotel.

Plans have been submitted to renovate and rebuild the Baring Hall Hotel in Grove Park.

The building was Grade II listed in 2018 and operated by Antic until March 2020.

It was purchased by the current owner in 2023 who was also behind the restoration of The Lord Northbrook on Burnt Ash Road.

Baring Hall plans 2024

Proposed elevation post renovation.

The proposal includes “internal and external alterations, a single-storey kitchen extension and installation of associated extraction vents, conversion of the first and second floor to 10 letting rooms, rebuild of the stable block to provide 6 letting rooms and improvements to the external patio area”.

The former pub and hotel is a prominent local landmark very close to Grove Park station seeing high footfall at the corner of Baring Hall Road and Downham Way.

Ghost sign.

Alongside changes previously mentioned, the application notes that one side of the building “will be rendered and finished with a feature ‘ghost’ type sign”.

Baring Hall 2024

Applicant seeking to rebuild building in poor shape. Image: Planning application.

A Heritage Statement within the application covers the site’s history:

“The Baring Hall Hotel has considerable significance as one of the few extant traces of the Grove Park suburb, inspired by the success of the world famous Bedford Park in West London and promoted by the Baring family to designs by Ernest Newton.”

Architect Ernest Newton designed a number of buildings in south east London including St Swithun’s Church in Hither Green and the "Royal Bell Hotel" in Bromley which saw plans for extension approved in 2018.

 

LICENSEE LIST

POUND John 1882+

CLEMENTS John 1891-96+

HEARD William 1901+

DENBY Frances Mrs 1905+

HARRIS Frederick Davis 1911+

ISAACA Harry 1919+

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