A new pub is looking to add some crucial final additions before it can finally welcome drinkers in the city centre.
Plans to turn the empty five-storey building and former phone shop in Broad Street were backed by Worcester City Council more than a year ago but only a handful of details about the new watering hole have since been revealed.
A planning application asking for permission to install traditional painted front and hanging signs with the name ‘Cocky Anchor’ to the city centre’s latest new boozer has been submitted to planners at the city council.
The green and gold wooden sign with the name of the new pub would be fixed on the front of the almost 300-year-old building alongside a traditional hanging sign.
The building has also previously been home to a vape shop, building society and mobility scooter store.
Hampshire-based developer Anchor Real Estate is converting the grade II listed building opposite the Wetherspoon-owned Crown into a new micropub serving beers and ales as well as selling takeaway bottles and cans.
The proposed opening hours are 11am to 11pm every day and the new pub would bring four jobs.
A micropub called the Cocky Anchor in Hampshire market town Romsey, which opened in 2021 and is also owned by Anchor Real Estate, was mentioned in the first planning application as a scheme that could potentially be emulated in Worcester.
Another application by Anchor Real Estate then added more detail to the proposals and showed how the former phone shop would be converted into a pub.
The upper floors of the building would also be turned into a lounge, conference room and private bar for functions as well as a manager’s flat and staff kitchen, according to the application.
A new conservatory and decking would also be built on the top floor “offering a unique experience with views across a wide area of the city centre that has been out of reach for the general public for several decades.”
The building was formerly known as Cupola House and dates to 1740, and from around 1831 was the home of naturalist and printer Edwin Lees.
You can view the plans by visiting Worcester City Council’s website. The application number is 23/00532/ADV and consultation ends on July 26.
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