The Cock Public House

TL 1407 NE 4/283

ST ALBANS ST PETER'S STREET (south east side) Nos 48 and 50 (The Cock PH)

II GV

Public House. Late C16 or early C17, added to and altered. Painted brick with 1st floor rendered on St Peter's Street side incorporating timber framing. Plain tile roof. 2 timber-framed bays, jettied at front and left side, with wing added to rear (C17), jetties underbuilt, 3rd bay added to front right (probably early C19), and wing extended rearwards (C19 and C20). St Peter's Street elevation: 2 1st-floor windows; left corner canted and having C20 door with pub sign over; 3 large C20 sash windows to ground floor, of 6, 8 and 6 panes; on 1st floor, pub sign flanked by 16-pane sash windows. Roof hipped at left end. Large brick stack to rear left. Left return: front range has a window to each floor, the wing a door flanked by windows on each floor the ground-floor openings cambered-headed; ground-floor windows are C20, small- paned; 1st-floor windows are 2-light, 8-pane, side-sliding sashes; lower single- wing-extension on left has three 6-pane sashes, parapet, and ridge stack. Interior: timber-framed part of front range has chamfered cross-beam with stepped cyma stop; broad, close-set, joists and dragon-beam at corner with carpenters marks; covered-over timbers visible on 1st floor including jowelled wall posts and tie-beams. Front part of rear wing (which is the oldest) has chamfered spine-beam with run-out stops, and wall plate visible on 1st floor.

Listing NGR: TL1495207507