Visitors to Coventry could soon have the chance to sleep in a room that was once a concert venue for top bands such as U2, the Specials, the Cranberries and the Eurythmics.

The General Wolfe pub on the Foleshill Road in Coventry was used as the launchpad for several major bands over the last twenty years.

However, over the last decade the pub and accompanying nightclub have fallen into disrepair and are no longer used for high profile acts.

The pub is now undergoing refurbishment work to create 11 bedrooms, four of which will be on the site of the function room that played host to the top bands.

Agent Adele Earnshaw, who has looked after the development for London-based letting agency Firegold, reveals that it will be a three phase project.

She said: 

"We are hopeful that the first phase, which has already received planning permission, will begin very shortly.

"It will involve converting the big function room into four rooms and also creating three other bedrooms on the ground floor.

"The function room is where I am led to believe several top bands stopped off to perform when they were on UK tours, including U2 and the Jam.

"That will be turned into four on-suite bedrooms and the rear of the bar area and the store room will be transformed into another three."

The second phase of the project will involve converting the upstairs of the building into another four rooms, a plan which is currently under consideration by Coventry council.

At present the General Wolfe is still operating as a pub and Earnshaw believes that this will continue to be the case after the work is completed.

The final stage of the development would be the working on the disused nightclub building which is joined to the pub by a connecting passage.

Earnshaw said: