Barley Mow, 52 Leicester Street
| The earliest reference found to this pub so far is on 24th Feb 1843, when the Coventry Standard reported an assault which took place there the day before. The licensee, John Jordan, was also at the nearby Brewery Tap in 1832 and 1847.
The pub was part of the group of buildings that comprised the Coventry Brewery, so it is easy to think of it as the 'brewery tap'. In an abstract of title of 1873 it is said that the Barley Mow was built by 'the Phillipses', who owned the Coventry Brewery from c1825 to 1849, when Ratliff took over. However, the brewery predates the Phillipses, as it is recorded from 1802. In 1873 Ratliff raise a mortgage of £3,000 on this pub, the brewery and six other pubs, which may have represented his entire assets at the time.
Until 1899 was part of Ratliff's estate. On the takeover of Ratliff's by Phillips & Marriott, it was valued at £1,500 but was sold in 1912 to Coventry Corporation for £350 plus £500 compensation. It closed in c1914 but the building remained for many years afterwards as I have seen a photograph dated 1926.
In 1841 this was the BEERHOUSE, Leicester Street, Jordan. A mow was a stack, of barley in this case. The sign of the barley mow simply meant that beer was being sold. | |||
LICENSEES:1845 John Jordan 1850 William Morris 1861 William Sanders 1868 - 1881 John Harris 1886 S. Watts 1890 - 1893 H. Eves 1894 E. G. Peach 1896 W. A. Wakefield 1900 William Henry Cleaver 1900 - 1913 Joseph Lamb | |||
 Street plan of 1851 | |||
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