The Cock Inn

TL 97 SE 3/46

STANTON THE STREET (EAST SIDE) The Cock Inn

II

Public house. Late C15 core, C16, C18 and C19 extensions. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and rendered, with an addition at the north end in colour-washed brick. Plaintiled roof, gabled on the south end and hipped on the north. An internal chimney-stack set off the ridge of the roof, with a plain shaft of small red bricks. Small-paned sash windows: at the south end, one old small- paned casement window with a sliding sash window above. The 3 bays at the south end, including the chimney-stack, have exposed C16 framing; originally jettied along street frontage, with jetty underbuilt in studwork. Main ceiling-beam with multiple roll-moulding, closely-set joists with chamfer; a cross-beam embedded in the brickwork of the stack also has a multiple roll- moulding. Open fireplace with mutilated timber lintel. Blocked original windows on rear wall of ground and first storey rooms. Upper room now divided into 2; cambered tie-beam with long arched braces to former open truss: plain crown-post roof. The 2 bays to the north of the stack have lower wallplates, and vestiges of an open hall : open truss with arched braces and mutilated remains of shafts down the main posts. Walls heightened and roof replaced in C18: clasped purlins without principal rafters, and a narrow ridge-piece. The north end is an early C19 extension. At the rear, 2 timber-framed additions of the late C17/early C18, one for a stair, and a long single-storey brick hall added in the late C19.

Listing NGR: TL9667473360