Plans to convert historic building in Bath into Wetherspoons approved by council

The popular pub chain already has the King of Wessex on James Street West. Now it will open a new Wetherspoons in the former Revolution premises on George Street.

The new Wetherspoons will be called “the Old Post Office,” a name helpfully already written on the historic building. It was originally built in the mid eighteenth century by John Wood the Younger, the iconic architect of the Royal Crescent.

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Bath and North East Somerset Council has granted JD Wetherspoon listed building consent for alternations to the grade II listed building to turn it into a pub, including moving the gents toilets upstairs and opening up three windows which had been blocked up internally.

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The council has also granted it permission to change the building’s opening hours so it can open at seven am and serve breakfast — an hour earlier than the King of Wessex opens. In their application, the pub chain said: “Given that the premises has operated for a number of years within a sensitive time period and had no complaints or issues, it is considered that there would be no negative impact from increasing the hours of opening to [seven am].”

The old post office on George Street should not be confused with the nearby but separate old post office at the other end of Broad Street, which Bath and North East Somerset Council is planning to turn into the new home for the Fashion Museum.