The Red Cow Public House

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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