The Leaking Tap
The Leaking Tap, Shrewsbury Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055951
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Leaking Tap
- Statutory Address:
- The Leaking Tap, Shrewsbury Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055951
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Leaking Tap
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Leaking Tap, Shrewsbury Road
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Leaking Tap, Shrewsbury Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cockshutt
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4350329077
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25/05/2018
SJ 42 NW
12/65
COCKSHUTT CP,
SHREWSBURY ROAD (west side)
The Leaking Tap
(Formerly listed as The Red Lion)
GV
II
Farmhouse, now inn. Mid-to late C18 with later additions and alterations. Painted brick; slate roof with coped verges on carved stone kneelers and external end stacks, right tapered to base. T-plan with lower range to rear possibly slightly later than main range. Two storeys and attic with floor band to first floor and chamfered plinth with cellar below. Three-window front; mid-C19 horned four-paned sashes in C18 openings with gauged heads, three C19 gabled dormers in bottom of roof slope. Two-storey range at right-angles to rear: painted red sandstone blocks and slate roof with integral end stack. Single-storey outbuilding attached to left gable end of main range follows curve of road to south.
INTERIOR: two chamfered spine beams with plain and chamfered joists to right ground-
floor room.
Listing NGR: SJ4350329077
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260765
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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