HOUSE ADJOINING POST OFFICE STORE POST OFFICE STORE THE COCK PUBLIC HOUSE

HOUSE ADJOINING POST OFFICE STORE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323019
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: HOUSE ADJOINING POST OFFICE STORE POST OFFICE STORE THE COCK PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HOUSE ADJOINING POST OFFICE STORE, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323019
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: HOUSE ADJOINING POST OFFICE STORE POST OFFICE STORE THE COCK PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HOUSE ADJOINING POST OFFICE STORE, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: POST OFFICE STORE, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 3:: THE COCK PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HOUSE ADJOINING POST OFFICE STORE, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: POST OFFICE STORE, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: THE COCK PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Hatfield Broad Oak
National Grid Reference:: TL 54592 16546

Details

TL 5416/5516 HATFIELD BROAD OAK HIGH STREET (north west corner)

6/99 The Cock Public House, Post Office store, and 20/02/67 adjoining house (Formerly listed as the Cock GV Inn. The Stones & The Barn House II

Public house, shop and house. C15, C17 and early C19. Timber frame plastered and weatherboarded with early C19 red brick front. All of 2 storeys with clay pegtile roofs. Large 'L' shaped block, of various builds, with later-extensions at rear. The eastern part projects slightly forward with dentilled brick cornice and storey height string band. This has 2 paired double hung sash windows with margin glazing bars under segmental heads, over a similar, but deeper window and segmental headed carriage arch with painted impost blocks and keystone. A large wrought iron inn-sign is largely supported off this block. To the west, the front elevation has 4 double hung sash windows with margin glazing bars, a C19 replacement window in old opening and one recessed blank opening of similar proportions at the east end. The ground floor has C20 shopfront with fascia and small panes, a blocked semi-circular headed door opening and a pair of similar double hung sash windows with door and flat hood on brackets between. The storey height string band rises slightly above a door with segmental rubbed brick arched head and fanlight. To the east are a further pair of similar double hung sash windows and another door with flat hood and brackets. 2 stacks on ridge line of this range. The return range to the north west has a house in its northern end and a moulded plaster eaves. The front has 3 double hung sash openings, but with C19 six pane casements, a blank recess and then a further similar window on south end. The ground floor has similar 5 bay arrangement but with central door to the house part and one window with original small panes. The brickwork at the corner is a C20 rebuilding and pegtile roof is hipped over this corner. A block at right angles, behind The Cock Public House has a white weatherboarded east flank. The carriage arch is a C15 timber framed structure and the neighbouring roof to the south has a crown post with moulded capital and base. Fragments of c.1600 wall painting survive on the first floor of this part. RCHM 19.

Listing NGR: TL5459216546

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Legacy System number:: 353655
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.