The historic Grade II*-listed 1898 Murdoch and Pitman Chambers, at 153-161 Corporation Street, is to form a major brand new 156-bed aparthotel scheme, complete with a restaurant/bar, gym, and meeting rooms.

Plans were unaminously approved.

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Murdoch and Pitman to be revived into a 156-bed aparthotel!


Murdoch and Pitman to be revived into a 156-bed aparthotel!


The historic Grade II*-listed 1898 Murdoch and Pitman Chambers, at 153-161 Corporation Street, is to form a major brand new 156-bed aparthotel scheme, complete with a restaurant/bar, gym, and meeting rooms.

Plans were unaminously approved.


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Starting life as a hotel and vegetarian restaurant that once played host to Indian independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi, Murdoch and Pitman Chambers is to be refurbished and converted into 28-bedrooms, complete with a new 11-storey offering an additional 128-bedrooms to the rear.

Creating up to 70 new jobs, the building will receive new and improved shopfronts and entrance doors, as well as window frames and terracotta sculpture and dry rot repairs. All modern fittings will be removed and all original features reinstated (chimneypieces, cornices, doors).

Boosting viability, a set-back cuboid-esque 11-storey terracotta extension comprising an additional 128 bedrooms, developed in response to the major constraints that hamper the site, will be built to the rear, separated by a glazed link.

These constraints include limited access (as seen below) and its close proximity to nearby court buildings.

Facilities will include a restaurant/ bar, a gymnasium, and meeting rooms. 

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To facilitate construction works the part-demolition of a rear four-storey wing of the Pitman Building will need to be undertaken.

Earlier this year, the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) agreed in principle to make an investment to kickstart the scheme. A hotel operator has not yet been announced.

These plans have been brought forward by MP Devco Ltd - a concoction of Czero Developments, Trigram Properties, and Regal Property Group - with BPN Architects and Donald Insall Associates.

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Murdoch and Pitman Chambers, images from BPN Architects & Donald Insall Associates.

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