Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26307571

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)