New Beehive Inn

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. The New Beehive Inn instead replaced a nearby pub of the same name. Bradford Corporation had purchased the pub with a number of other properties from John Leach in 1889. The corporation continued to let the pub to the standing tenants, Samuel Allsopp & Sons. The pub was demolished as part of a scheme to widen Westgate. A replacement structure, the current building, was designed in April 1900 by the Bradford City Surveyor J. H. Cox; it was built in 1901.

The ground floor is centred around a lobby running from the front to the rear; with two main rooms on either side of the lobby.

The three-storey building is stone built with a slate roof and faces onto the B6144 road (Westgate). It is double fronted, with the symmetrical façade consisting of a narrow central bay flanked by a wider bay on both sides, topped by elaborate gables. 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. Gold lettering on this stringcourse gives the pub name. The double front doors are wooden; a glazed semi-circular pub sign extends out above the door and above this is a large lantern. The side elevations are plainer with the…