The Cocked Hat Restaurant and Hotel, Binley Common House

THE COCKED HAT RESTAURANT AND HOTEL, BINLEY COMMON HOUSE, RUGBY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1365086
Date first listed:
06-Oct-1960
List Entry Name:
The Cocked Hat Restaurant and Hotel, Binley Common House
Statutory Address:
THE COCKED HAT RESTAURANT AND HOTEL, BINLEY COMMON HOUSE, RUGBY ROAD
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Date:
2003-03-21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1365086
Date first listed:
06-Oct-1960
Date of most recent amendment:
25-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:
The Cocked Hat Restaurant and Hotel, Binley Common House
Statutory Address 1:
THE COCKED HAT RESTAURANT AND HOTEL, BINLEY COMMON HOUSE, RUGBY ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
THE COCKED HAT RESTAURANT AND HOTEL, BINLEY COMMON HOUSE, RUGBY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Coventry (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SP3869277640

Details

SP37NE BINLEY WOODS RUGBY ROAD
(South side)
1/3 The Cocked Hat Restaurant and
O6/10/60 Hotel, Binley Common House
(Formerly listed as Binley
Common House, civil parish of
Binley)

- II

Shown on Ordnance Survey map as Binley Common Farm.
Farmhouse, now restaurant and hotel. Late C17 with mid/late C19 additions and
alterations, and late C20 alterations. Flemish bond brick with sandstone splayed
plinth, moulded string course and alternating quoins. Plain-tile hipped roof has
deep eaves. Large brick left end and right external stacks have gables and roofs
and partly-rebuilt shafts. U-plan with wings to garden to rear. 2 storeys and
attic; 4-window range. Symmetrical fronts. C20 moulded 6-panelled door in simple
painted moulded stone doorcase with heavy dentil cornice. Painted stone
chamfered cross windows have glazing bars. Outer bays are widely spaced. 4
hipped roof dormers have C20 two-light casements with glazing bars. C19
single-storey wing at right angles on left has end stack. Late C20 windows.
Right external stack has moulded stone string course and cornices. Garden front
of 4 bays. Recessed centre has late C20 six-panelled door. Painted moulded stone
eared architrave has pulvinated frieze and pediment. Panel of sandstone blocks
above. Flanking windows. Late C20 top-hung sashes throughout have brick flat
arches with painted keystones to centre, and C19 rusticated painted rendered
flat arches to wings. Wings have C19 canted bays to ground floor. Four C20
two-light nipped roof dormers. Small C19 single-storey range at right angles on
right. Interior is altered, but retains dog-leg staircase with turned balusters.


Listing NGR: SP3869277640

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
308789
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.

Ordnance survey map of The Cocked Hat Restaurant and Hotel, Binley Common House

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