New Beehive Inn

It was built by Bradford Corporation (the local authority) in 1901 to replace an existing public house of the same name that they had purchased in 1889 and demolished to widen a road.

The structure was granted protection as a grade II listed building by Historic England on 13 July 2022.

The three-storey building is stone built with a slate roof and faces onto the B6144 road (Westgate).

The outer bays contain recessed bow sash windows on the ground floor, with stone mullions.

A double stringcourse separates each storey, with the uppermost containing a stone panel showing the construction date of 1901.

The tap room is set up as a saloon (or lounge) bar with leather bench seats around the walls and a fireplace with a segmental arch surround.

[1] A connection is sometimes made erroneously to the Beehive Inn further along Westgate, but this is unrelated and sat on a different site until it was demolished in the 1860s.

[2] A replacement structure, the current building, was designed in April 1900 by the Bradford City Surveyor J. H. Cox; it was built in 1901.

[2] The freehold of the pub was sold to William Whitaker & Co in 1926 and a Mr Smith appointed to manage it, holding the position until 1957.

The pub was purchased by William Wagstaff in 1989 and under his ownership reverted to The New Beehive Inn, he excavated the extension to the cellar, using the space to host music events.

[1] The new owner replaced the original upper windows with uPVC in May and in June removed the bar from the tap room.

[5] In October 2022 the owners applied for planning permission to convert the building into offices, saying that as much of the internal features as possible would be retained including some of the bell pushes, fireplaces and panelling.

[6][7] An objection raised by CAMRA said that the proposal would lead to the loss of "one of the country's very best historic pub interiors".