Has there ever been a construction project quite like this? Last week, South Staffordshire council ordered The Crooked House pub, in the village of Himley in the Black Country, to be rebuilt as it had been before it was unlawfully demolished. It was a standard issue enforcement notice, giving the owners three years to complete the job. 

But this is no normal building. It was “Britain’s wonkiest pub”. It was severely deformed, leaning at a 15 degree angle after nearly two centuries of subsidence. And it is now a pile of bricks.

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