The Definitive Guide to the History of
Pubs and Beerhouses in Coventry

Drinking in an Old English Town

Courtyard, High Street

These premises have been known by different names during their history:	FROM	TO	NAME
	1624	1992	ROSE AND CROWN
	1992	?	COURTYARD
Formerly the ROSE AND CROWN, in 1992 the pub became the COURTYARD. This pub is Grade II Listed being c1800 stucco, set back from the street in its yard and one of the few early inns surviving in central Coventry. The first mention I have found was in in 1624 when certain houses are said to stand near the Rose and Crown gateway. This gateway must have been quite substantial as in 1853 there was a lease of a ware-room above it. At this date, the seventeenth century that is, the pub appears to have been known as the CROWN.