The Red Cow Public House
THE RED COW PUBLIC HOUSE, CORN EXCHANGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265272
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Cow Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE RED COW PUBLIC HOUSE, CORN EXCHANGE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265272
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Cow Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RED COW PUBLIC HOUSE, CORN EXCHANGE STREET
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 RED COW PUBLIC HOUSE, CORN EXCHANGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Cambridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 44960 58374
Details
CAMBRIDGE CORN EXCHANGE STREET TL 44 58 SE 6/10016 The Red Cow Public House II GV Public House. 1898 by Richard Reynolds Rowe. Red brick and timber frame and plaster gable and turret. Plain tile roof with gabled ends, hipped corner, bands of shaped tiles and crested ridge-tiles. Brick gable end and axial stacks with corbelled brick caps and shafts. Plan: L-shaped plan on corner site. Old English-Jacobethan style. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical elevations and canted corner with ornate polygonal oriel turret with pargeted panels, carved heraldic beasts and copper ogee dome with very tall finial and weathervane. N elevation 3:2 bays broad timber frame gable to left jettied out on canted bays and 2 canted arches between, tripartite attic window and pargeting strapwork in gable and ornate pierced bargeboards, ball finial and pendant. Between gable and turret 2 windows and large hipped dormer with deep eaves. 3-bay W elevation with tripartite dormer, centre light segmentally arched. The ground floor has plate glass windows with thin columns between and entablature above with moulded cornice, the doorways with large console brackets and over-lights, the canted corner with pair of doorways and semi-circular fanlights and cartouche in entablature above. On left of N elevation the window is canted. Interior: Ground floor of saloons much altered.
Listing NGR: TL4496058374
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47935
- 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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