Description

BRAMFORD THE STREET TM 1246 9/86 The Cock Inn - - II Public house. Core probably of C16 with major alterations of several periods. 1 storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered, largely underbuilt and encased in late C18 or early C19 brickwork, now painted. Plaintiled roof; gabled C19 plaintiled dormers with casements. Axial C19 chimney of red brick. 3-light casements of C18 or early C19 with transomes and hinged boarded shutters. C19 boarded entrance door. The right hand section has an altered C16 core; a closed truss visible within the bar is tension-braced and was originally external. An open truss with arch-braced tie-beam, now visible in a 1st floor partition, may be the central truss of an open hall. In C17 or early C18 an upper floor was inserted and a further cell with axial chimney was added to left. Smoke-encrusted rafters from the open hall roof are reused in the C17/C18 rebuilding. The lean-to extension at front right was added C19, probably as a butcher's shop.

Listing NGR: TM1238846374

External Links

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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