The Fighting Cocks Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
The Fighting Cocks Public House
- WRENN ID
- wild-step-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley MP: Tahir Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Fighting Cocks Public House, St Mary's Row B13, B13 8HW
- OS grid reference
- SP 077 832
- Coordinates
- 52.44706, -1.88776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fighting Cocks Public House is a large establishment built in 1903 by T W F Newton and Cheatle, located at the corner of St Mary's Row and King Edward Road in Moseley, Birmingham. The building features two and three storeys, with an ashlar facade facing King Edward Road, while the ground floor is also ashlar and the upper floors are red brick, accented with stone dressings along St Mary's Row.
A prominent feature is the lofty octagonal ashlar corner tower, which includes a bell stage with louvres alternating with clock faces at the top, topped by an ogee swept lead cupola-dome. The windows exhibit simplified Jacobean mullion and transom designs with Arts and Crafts details, and there are shaped Dutch gables facing St Mary's Row. The bar windows are fitted with leaded light casements, some of which contain stained glass.
The doorways are adorned with deep semi-circular hoods supported by consoles, with the corner tower's doorway flanked by pilasters and featuring a painted relief coat of arms above, accompanied by the pub's name in gilded Arts and Crafts lettering. The clock faces on the tower are embellished with scrolled surrounds of strapwork design and small swept gables that break the capping cornice.
Although the interior has been altered, it still retains a fine-quality Arts and Crafts bar back and a double-faced clock supported by a wrought iron fighting cock.
Local climate
The Fighting Cocks Public House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 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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