The Red Cow Public House
The Red Cow Public House, Blackmore End Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337847
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Cow Public House
- Statutory Address:
- The Red Cow Public House, Blackmore End Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337847
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Red Cow Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Red Cow Public House, Blackmore End 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 Red Cow Public House, Blackmore End Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wethersfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 73827 30977
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 September 2021 to reformat text to current standards
TL 73 SW
1/105
WETHERSFIELD
BLACKMORE END ROAD (north-east side)
The Red Cow Public House
GV
II
House, now a public house. C.1600. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Three bays facing south with axial stack in middle bay forming a lobby-entrance, and rear wing with later internal stack, forming a T-plan. Single-storey extension to right, C18/C19. One storey with attics. Ground floor, two late C19 sashes of six lights, one early C19 sash of sixteen lights. First floor, two C19 casements in gabled dormers. Six-panel door with shallow hood on profiled brackets, and plain boarded door in C20 timber porch. Roof half-hipped at both ends. Jowled posts, chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of horizontal section in left bay, square section in right bay. Two large wood-burning hearths. The left ground-floor room has a dado of oak panelling, c.1600, and a panelled oak door of the same date with cockshead hinges.
Listing NGR: TL7382730977
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115619
- 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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