Description

TL 97 SE
3/46

STANTON
THE STREET
(EAST SIDE)
The Cock Inn

II

Public house. Late C15 core, C16, C18 and C19 extensions. 2 storeys.
Timber-framed and rendered, with an addition at the north end in colour-washed
brick. Plaintiled roof, gabled on the south end and hipped on the north. An
internal chimney-stack set off the ridge of the roof, with a plain shaft of
small red bricks. Small-paned sash windows: at the south end, one old small-
paned casement window with a sliding sash window above. The 3 bays at the
south end, including the chimney-stack, have exposed C16 framing; originally
jettied along street frontage, with jetty underbuilt in studwork. Main
ceiling-beam with multiple roll-moulding, closely-set joists with chamfer; a
cross-beam embedded in the brickwork of the stack also has a multiple roll-
moulding. Open fireplace with mutilated timber lintel. Blocked original
windows on rear wall of ground and first storey rooms. Upper room now divided
into 2; cambered tie-beam with long arched braces to former open truss: plain
crown-post roof. The 2 bays to the north of the stack have lower wallplates,
and vestiges of an open hall : open truss with arched braces and mutilated
remains of shafts down the main posts. Walls heightened and roof replaced in
C18: clasped purlins without principal rafters, and a narrow ridge-piece. The
north end is an early C19 extension. At the rear, 2 timber-framed additions
of the late C17/early C18, one for a stair, and a long single-storey brick
hall added in the late C19.

Listing NGR: TL9667473360

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26282542

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5