The Elms, Coventry

The Elms, Coventry
The Elms in 2017
Interactive map of the The Elms, Coventry area
Former namesPaybody Convalescent Home
Paybody Orthopaedic Hospital
Paybody Eye Hospital
General information
LocationAllesley, Coventry, England
Year builtFrom 1590
LandlordHarvester

The Elms, operated by the Harvester chain, is a pub and restaurant, former eye hospital and former children's convalescent home on the Birmingham Road in Allesley, Coventry, West Midlands, England.

History

The Elms is housed in a timber-framed two storey building, built from 1590,[1] with the earliest surviving parts of the structure dating to the 1660s.[2] It is located next to All Saints Church and was a private residence until the 1920s.[3]

In 1928, Coventry businessman and philanthropist Thomas Paybody purchased the Elms and its 12 acre grounds. He presented the building to the Coventry and District Crippled Children’s Guild.[4][5] The building opened as the Paybody Convalescent Home for children in September 1929,[6] with an extension for another ward built in 1931,[7] at the request of the Minister of Health and the Board of Education.[8] The building became the Paybody Orthopaedic Hospital from 1938 to 1963, then operated as the Paybody Eye Hospital, until 1991.[3]

The Elms is currently a pub and restaurant operated by the Harvester chain. It is a locally listed building.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "PAYBODY HOUSE". Heritage Gateway. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  2. ↑ "West Midlands". Historic Hospitals. 5 October 2018. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  3. 1 2 Oakley, Bernard. (2004) The Buildings of Allesley, 2nd ed. Allesley and Coundon Wedge Conservation Society. p. 12-13.
  4. ↑ Fry, David. "Allesley". The Coventry We Have Lost. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
  5. ↑ The Cripple's Journal. 1928. p. 83.
  6. ↑ "A beautiful convalescent home". Coventry Herald. 1929. p. 7 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ Doubleday, Herbert Arthur (1969). The Victoria History of the County of Warwick: The city of Coventry and borough of Warwick. A. Constable. p. 290.
  8. ↑ "Paybody Home, Completion of extensions at Allesley". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 1931. p. 5 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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