The Rainbow Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1974. Inn. 2 related planning applications.
The Rainbow Inn
- WRENN ID
- drifting-paling-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Coventry
- Constituency
- Coventry North West MP: Taiwo Owatemi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1974
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Rainbow Inn, 73, Birmingham Road, CV5 9GT
- OS grid reference
- SP 300 806
- Coordinates
- 52.42291, -1.55917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rainbow Inn is an early 19th century building that features a whitewashed brick front, which covers an earlier timber-framed structure dating back to around 1680. The timber framework is exposed on the east side, and there is some early stonework visible below. The building has one storey with attics and a two-storey wing on the right. It includes two sets of casement windows with glazing bars, and cambered relieving arches above them. The roofs are a mix of old and machine tiles, with a corbelled brick cornice and two gabled casement dormers. The ground floor window on the right does not have glazing bars. Inside, there is a stone ingle-nook fireplace. The Rainbow Inn is part of a group that includes Nos 67 to 73 (odd).
Local climate
The Rainbow Inn receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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