The Cock Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1997. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Cock Public House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-basalt-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1997
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Cock Public House, 23, High Street, Southill, SG18 9NA
- OS grid reference
- TL 171 429
- Coordinates
- 52.0728, -0.29195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cock Public House is a mid-19th century ale house and cottages located on High Street in Southill. The building is constructed of yellow brick and features a slate roof with five brick chimneystacks. The right-hand section is two storeys high, with a 12-light sash window on the first floor and a canted bay window with 24 panes on the ground floor. There is a cambered entrance on the left with a half-glazed door.
Adjoining this is a long L-shaped range of two storeys, which includes a 6-pane sash window on the first floor and a 20th-century tripartite window on the ground floor. The side elevation displays irregularly placed casement windows and cambered doorcases.
Inside, The Cock Public House boasts an unusually complete 19th-century pub interior featuring pine fittings. This includes a dado panelled skittles room with an original leather and wood skittles set designed in the form of a chair, a front parlour that is panelled with built-in settles and cupboards, and a rear parlour with a wooden mantelpiece, a cambered wooden cupboard, panelling, and built-in settles. The panelled corridor has wooden doors and tiled floors throughout, making it a rare example of a complete rural pub interior from this period.
Local climate
The Cock Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 3 applications
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- 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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