Description

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TL 73 SW
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WETHERSFIELD
BLACKMORE END ROAD (north-east side)
The Red Cow Public House

GV
II

House, now a public house. C.1600. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Three bays facing south with axial stack in middle bay forming a lobby-entrance, and rear wing with later internal stack, forming a T-plan. Single-storey extension to right, C18/C19. One storey with attics. Ground floor, two late C19 sashes of six lights, one early C19 sash of sixteen lights. First floor, two C19 casements in gabled dormers. Six-panel door with shallow hood on profiled brackets, and plain boarded door in C20 timber porch. Roof half-hipped at both ends. Jowled posts, chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of horizontal section in left bay, square section in right bay. Two large wood-burning hearths. The left ground-floor room has a dado of oak panelling, c.1600, and a panelled oak door of the same date with cockshead hinges.

Listing NGR: TL7382730977

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26622215

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6