Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8490 WILMSLOW ROAD, Didsbury 698-1/25/667 (West side) 03/10/74 Nos.848 AND 850 Ye Olde Cock Inn

GV II

Inn, now public house. Late C18, altered. White-painted roughcast on brick, green slate roof. Long rectangular plan plus back extensions. Three storeys, a 5-window facade, with doorways at the left end and between the 4th and 5th windows, the former with a pedimented doorcase and the latter with a simple flat-roofed porch on 2 columns; a 2-storey canted bay window offset left of centre, with C20 4-light casements at ground floor and 3 sashes at 1st floor, a 1-storey canted bay at the right-hand end, and 2 C20 cross-window casements; otherwise, all 1st-floor windows are sashed, with glazing bars in the upper leaves only, and all 2nd floor windows are shallow sashes with one tier of panes in each leaf. Moulded wooden gutter cornice; 4 ridge chimneys. Rear (unrendered) has some sashed windows. Interior altered. History: built on site of C16 building known as The Cock.

Listing NGR: SJ8473490445

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)