The former Britannia Hotel in Ramsey looks set to be demolished, six years after it closed down.

Heron and Brearley’s application (20/00229/B), would see the building’s status as a public house removed and the building demolished.

Following potential buyers pulling out and as it has no plans to reopen the pub, the brewery has decided the best way forward for the building is to demolish it and sell the site.

The pub consists of four main stages of building with the oldest part being a 19th century two storey section in Chapel Lane. The most recent section was built in the late 1960s or early 1970s.

Since the pub closed in 2014, due to a downturn in trade, H&B has attempted to sell the building. Unlike other closed pubs, for example the Liverpool Arms, in Lonan, the brewery has not insisted on a covenant banning the future sale of alcohol on the premises if an owner could be found.

However, despite this, the pub has remained unsold with some potential buyers pulling out due to cracking both inside and outside the building.

Support documents for the application, submitted by architect Andrew Bentley, state the building is in a ’very poor state of repair’.

The documents state that issues with the building include: ’Subsidence causing sloping floors, dry rot is prevalent in some of the structural walls and an area of floor has been removed as it was rotten.’

Parts of the building are also said to have fallen off, ’presenting a danger to the public’.

Unlike other pubs which have closed in recent years in more rural areas, such as the Waterfall in Glen Maye, there is a wide variety of pubs and bars in Ramsey to serve the community and the majority of those are located within 500 metres of the Britannia.

After demolishing the building, Heron and Brearley wants to change the sites designation to one of town centre mixed use.

After demolition, the brewery wants to install a 1.1m high plastic picket fence around the perimeter of the site and to sell the site to a developer.