A former popular pub in Brading, which struggled to say afloat, looks set to become houses.
The Kynge’s Well, on Brading High Street, closed in February 2020 because its then landlords were unable to make it work.
Since then, the owner of the building Mr D. Hopkinson, has been unable to attract any more tenants despite being on the market for several months.
Planning agents, Wildren Architecture, say the Grade II listed building has now become a blot on the landscape and is falling into disrepair.
They say it will continue to do so unless a positive and realistic solution can be found.
In planning documents, the agents say:
“Many villagers may feel the loss of such a facility is not what they want to see and Mr Hopkinson sympathises with this.
“However, it has now reached a point where the use of the site as a pub and restaurant has failed again with no prospect of being able to turn things around.”
Now plans have been submitted to turn the building back to its original use of two houses with two bedrooms.
Rear outbuildings would be demolished and allow for each house to have a private garden.
The main conversion of the pub would be done sympathetically, retaining the majority of the historic beams, fireplaces and features of the listed building.
Plans to demolish part of the pub and turn it into houses had previously been refused by the Isle of Wight Council in 2009 but the new scheme is proposing fewer houses.
To view the plans, 22/00307/FUL, you can visit the council’s planning register. Comments can be submitted until April 8.
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