House Adjoining Post Office Store Post Office Store the Cock Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Public house, shop, house.

House Adjoining Post Office Store Post Office Store the Cock Public House

WRENN ID
heavy-slate-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
Harlow MP: Chris Vince (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1967
Type
Public house, shop, house
OS grid reference
TL 545 165
Coordinates
51.82616, 0.24188
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A public house, shop, and adjoining house, dating back to the 15th century, with significant alterations in the 17th and early 19th centuries. The building is timber-framed and mostly plastered with weatherboarding, with an early 19th century red brick front. It is two storeys high and has clay pegtile roofs. The building forms a large, "L" shaped block with later extensions at the rear.

The eastern part of the building projects slightly, featuring a dentilled brick cornice, a storey height string band, and two paired double-hung sash windows with margin glazing bars under segmental heads. Below these is a deeper window and a segmental headed carriage arch with painted impost blocks and keystone. A large wrought iron inn sign is largely supported on this section. The western front has four double-hung sash windows with margin glazing bars, a 19th-century replacement window in an old opening, and one recessed blank opening. The ground floor has a 20th-century shopfront with a fascia and small panes, a blocked semi-circular headed door opening, and a pair of double-hung sash windows with a door and flat hood on brackets between. The storey height string band rises slightly above a door with a segmental rubbed brick arched head and fanlight. Further east are two more double-hung sash windows and another door with a flat hood and brackets. There are two stacks on the ridge line of this range.

The section returning to the northwest has a house within its northern end, featuring moulded plaster eaves. This front has three double-hung sash openings, a blank recess, and an additional window at the south end. The ground floor mirrors this arrangement with a central door to the house and one window with original small panes. The brickwork at the corner has been rebuilt in the 20th century, and the pegtile roof is hipped over the corner. A block set at a right angle behind the public house is white weatherboarded on its east flank. Inside the carriage arch, there is a 15th-century timber-framed structure. The roof of the neighboring building to the south contains a crown post with a moulded capital and base. Fragments of circa-1600 wall paintings remain on the first floor of this section.

Local climate

House Adjoining Post Office Store Post Office Store the Cock Public House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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