Ye Olde Cock Inn
WILMSLOW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254964
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Cock Inn
- Statutory Address:
- WILMSLOW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254964
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Ye Olde Cock Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILMSLOW ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- YE OLDE COCK INN, 848 AND 850, WILMSLOW ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WILMSLOW ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- YE OLDE COCK INN, 848 AND 850, WILMSLOW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84734 90445
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8490 WILMSLOW ROAD, Didsbury 698-1/25/667 (West side) 03/10/74 Nos.848 AND 850 Ye Olde Cock Inn
GV II
Inn, now public house. Late C18, altered. White-painted roughcast on brick, green slate roof. Long rectangular plan plus back extensions. Three storeys, a 5-window facade, with doorways at the left end and between the 4th and 5th windows, the former with a pedimented doorcase and the latter with a simple flat-roofed porch on 2 columns; a 2-storey canted bay window offset left of centre, with C20 4-light casements at ground floor and 3 sashes at 1st floor, a 1-storey canted bay at the right-hand end, and 2 C20 cross-window casements; otherwise, all 1st-floor windows are sashed, with glazing bars in the upper leaves only, and all 2nd floor windows are shallow sashes with one tier of panes in each leaf. Moulded wooden gutter cornice; 4 ridge chimneys. Rear (unrendered) has some sashed windows. Interior altered. History: built on site of C16 building known as The Cock.
Listing NGR: SJ8473490445
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458269
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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