St George's Meeting House in Exeter to see big changes.
Plans handed into Exeter City Council show intentions to greatly expand its size and changing its look – with outdoor fairy lights and trellises.
A large timber framed pergola that would create rows of new fixed seating is also part of the plans.
But initial plans for a retractable canopy which would cover seats during wet weather had to be scrapped from the scheme after objections from Historic England.
They had said the large retractable canopy would be a visually prominent modern intervention and would be harmful to the setting of a Grade I listed building and the surrounding historic townscape.
Exeter City Council planners earlier this month under delegated powers approved the revised scheme for Georges Meeting House.
When the work is carried out, it will mean the beer garden would temporarily shut.
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