Stoney Road Gardens Association

The Secretary met George Demidowicz (Head of Conservation and Archaeology for the city council) and Paul Perry (Planning Dept of city council) and together they inspected all the listed buildings on site. Mr Demidowicz concluded that the buildings on plots 13 and 9 could be restored and that the work needed was desperately urgent. He was fully in favour of restoration.

Plot holders at Stoney Road Gardens are following in the footsteps of generations of gardeners who have worked the soil here. Steeped in history, it is one of only four allotment sites to be listed by English Heritage. You can find out more about our history on the Parks & Gardens UK website.

Tucked away behind the modern houses of an unassuming Coventry suburb lies a secret that might surprise many local people: an allotment site so historic and so special that it is one of only four in the whole country to have attracted a listing from English Heritage. Twenty-first century gardeners who work this land are following in the footsteps of generations of gardeners before them. Dotted around the site there are also concrete reminders of the past in the form of small huts or bothies where gardeners and their families stayed in the summer.