Bird in Hand Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1972. A C19 Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Bird in Hand Public House
- WRENN ID
- errant-terrace-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 June 1972
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Bird in Hand Public House, 17, Market Place, Leek, ST13 5HJ
- OS grid reference
- SJ 983 565
- Coordinates
- 53.10612, -2.02577
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bird in Hand Public House is a public house dated 1889, designed by William Larner Sugden. It features ashlar stonework on the ground floor and mock timber-framing on the upper levels, topped with a plain-tiled roof. The building stands three storeys high and has a two-window range facing the Market Place, along with a single gabled return to Sheep Market.
The Market Place façade is defined by paired gables that create two bays. The central doorway is framed by a moulded stone architrave with an ogival arch and an entablature above. Flanking the doorway are three and four-light mullioned windows, each with ogivally-arched upper panes. A moulded bressumer with foliate scrollwork relief supports the jettied mock-timbered upper storey.
There is a prominent ten-light mullioned oriel window with leaded lights and some stained glass. Above, the paired jettied gables each feature a three-light leaded mullioned window with an embattled cambered bressumer. The bargeboards are adorned with scrollwork. The building also has twisted stone axial and end wall stacks with castellated caps.
The Sheep Market elevation is similar, consisting of a single gable, with a blocked door now serving as a window to the right, which has a date above it. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Bird in Hand Public House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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