The Cock sign on Sutton High Street

An early-C20 lamp post and pub sign, relocated and converted to a road sign around 1915.

Materials: steel, cast and wrought iron.

Description: the structure stands just south of the intersection of the pedestrian Sutton High Street and the vehicular Carshalton Road. The supporting cast iron lamp post has a tall, square base which is around 5m high and has panelled sides and a moulded cornice. The makers mark 'Hart.Son.Peard & Company' is embossed on a plaque attached to the south face.

The base of the column is facetted, with chamfered corners, and has four bulls-eye circular mouldings facing north, east, south and west. It is surmounted by a decorative fluted column of around 3m in height, which rises to the supports for the four finger post road signs, identifying the destinations: Cheam, Worcester Park, Carshalton, Croydon, Banstead, Reigate, Mitcham, and London. The metal signs are rectangular with triangular ends indicating the direction of travel. They have embossed letters painted black on a white background. Above the roads signs a rectangular pub sign swings within a hinged metal frame, which has metal filigree to the sides, and scroll-work to the top. On both faces the pub sign has the image of a cockerel painted on a white background above which is painted the word 'The'. Above the scroll-work, there is a centrally-mounted black-painted figurine of a cockerel.