A DERELICT eyesore pub on a village high street could finally be in for a revamp after updated renovation plans were submitted.

A structural engineer’s report on the 250-year-old former Angel Inn in Ruardean warns that three chimneys are “in poor condition with a very noticeable lean” and need action.

Another two are “in a poor state of repair” and should also be taken down if no longer needed, while the walls of the Georgian building show signs of “outward bowing”.

“Internally the property generally is in a state of quite severe dereliction, with much deterioration to wall surfaces from both rising and penetrating dampness,” he adds.

Thomas Barker from Uxbridge was given permission to convert the former pub, which dates back to at least the 1770s, into four houses in 2017.

No work has yet taken place on the structure - which closed as a pub in 2008 and was most recently used as a music school .

in its current ramshackle state, villagers regard it as a blot on the high street on the other side of the road from the village’s St John The Baptist Church.

Mr Barker has now applied to Forest planners to amend his original plan, with proposals to take six chimneys down and to replace decayed window frames.

Up until the 1980s, the Angel Inn was the meeting place for a mock court presided over by a mayor, an office dating back to at least the start of the century, and supposedly held by the village’s tallest man.