SIR – Bradford’s most architecturally-outstanding public house, the Cock and Bottle (Grade II-listed building) situated on Barkerend Road, is under threat.

Plans have been submitted for its conversion into a restaurant and comments on the scheme can be made to Bradford Council’s Planning Department until May 10.

A licensed property has occupied the site since at least 1747. The inn was completely rebuilt about 1820 and the name Cock and Bottle first appeared in a trade directory for 1822.

During the 1860s, reconstruction took place, doubling the size of the building. The extension housed what was then termed a “dram-shop”, to retail wines and spirits.

Etched plate-glass windows were installed along with stained-glass, mirrors and elaborately-carved woodwork.

Around the start of the last century refurbishment of the internal fittings took place, but since that time the pub has remained largely unaltered.

Under the ownership of Joshua Tetley & Son Ltd, the ‘lost’ Leeds company, in 1984 the pub was designated a “Tetley Heritage Inn”.

M Toft, Windsor Avenue, Silsden