Historic coaching inn could reopen
The Craven Arms once served as a coaching inn
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Plan to reopen historic pub and create apartments
Application asks for permission to extend the Craven Arms
The hotel once gave the town of Craven Arms its name
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A historic pub which has been shut for two years could be set to reopen.
The Grade II listed Craven Arms, a former coaching inn, in Shropshire gave its name to the nearby town which sprung up around it.
Developers Rugby Property Assets has asked Shropshire Council for permission to extend the building and create apartments on the first and second floors.
It said the ground floor would reopen as a pub.
A planning application said the work would "respect the existing historic fabric of the building".
The Georgian building was named after the Lords Craven, who owned the nearby Stokesay Castle.
When the town grew with the arrival of the railway in the 19th Century it took its name from the building.