Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26608780

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)