NHER 65173 (Building record) - Nos 18 and 20 Cock Street

Nos 18 and 20 Cock Street.
Previously recorded under NHER 15858 (No 16 Cock Street).

December 1950. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Two houses of early 18th century, altered c.1760, unified 1879 when rear extension built, separated again 20th century. Brick, whitewashed to facade. Plaintile roof to front slope, pantile rear. Two storeys and dormer attic in five irregular bays. Central panelled door in doorcase with fluted Doric columns. Guttae panels under door hood...Gabled roof with three gabled dormers of 1879. Ridge stack also 1879. North gable-end stack rebuilt. North gable head with tumbling. Rear formerly with continuous two-storey outshut, the south part raised and rebuilt 1879 in four bays. Illuminated through cross casements. Serrated stack matching front ridge stack.
Interior - Little remains to No 20 (No 18 not inspected internally). Roof of staggered butt purlins and collars. North dormer in position of a predecessor."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 21 July 2021.

1980. Field Observation.
Even Nos 16 to 20 Cock Street visited by E. Rose (NLA).
No 16 [15858] is timber framed, jettied, but with boards of recent date nailed over bressumer and some timbers. 18th or early 19th century central doorcase with Venetian windows each side. Upper windows occupy the original spaces. Dormers of same period as doorcase; pantile roof.
Nos 18-20 have been faced with brick, the jetty being underbuilt. Double front doorway between Doric pillars under heavy architrave. Very fine multi-angled brick chimneystack, early 17th century, probably same date as timber framing.
This brick facing seems 18th-19th century, but the north gable wall is of chequered brickwork - early 18th? - with SB in clamp irons. The other brickwork is whitewashed.
E. Rose (NLA), 6 March 1980.