The Cock Inn

The Cock Inn is a public house with a late 15th century core and extensions from the 16th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It is two storeys high, constructed from timber framing and rendered, with a north end addition made of colour-washed brick. The roof is plaintiled, gabled at the south end and hipped at the north. An internal chimney stack rises off the ridge of the roof, featuring a plain shaft made of small red bricks.

The building has small-paned sash windows, including one old small-paned casement window at the south end, with a sliding sash window above it. The three bays at the south end, which include the chimney stack, display exposed 16th century framing that was originally jettied along the street front, with the jetty underbuilt in studwork. Inside, there is a main ceiling beam with multiple roll-moulding, closely-set joists that are chamfered, and a cross-beam embedded in the brickwork of the stack, also featuring multiple roll-moulding. An open fireplace has a mutilated timber lintel.

There are blocked original windows on the rear wall of the ground and first storey rooms. The upper room has been divided into two, with a cambered tie-beam and long arched braces leading to a former open truss, and a plain crown-post roof. The two bays to the north of the stack have lower wall plates and remnants of an open hall, with an open truss that has arched braces and mutilated remains of shafts down the main posts. The walls were heightened and the roof replaced in the 18th century, featuring clasped purlins without principal rafters and a narrow ridge piece. The north end includes an early 19th century extension. At the rear, there are two timber-framed additions from the late 17th or early 18th century, one serving as a stair, and a long single-storey brick hall added in the late 19th century.