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© Mr David Fletcher
IoE Number:
163215
Location:
THE FIGHTING COCKS PUBLIC HOUSE, ABBEY MILL LANE (north east side)
ST ALBANS, ST ALBANS, HERTFORDSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr David Fletcher
Date Photographed:
09 September 2001
Date listed:
08 May 1950
Date of last amendment:
08 May 1950
Grade
II
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1582 ABBEY MILL LANE
(North-East Side)
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The Fighting Cocks
Public House
TL 1406 NW 13/117 8.5.50.
II
2.
Octagonal, 2-storey timber framed building of C16 appearance, with high
pitched, pointed tiled roof. Plaster filling. Very heavy timbers, rather
widely spaced, with tension braces. 1st floor windows 2-light casements,
some with broad glazing bars, in flush, box frames. 2 similar, grond
floor windows. Various extensions: Contemporary 2-storey North West
extension, gabled, with high pitched, tiled roof, and weather-boarded
ground floor on North East side. Tall, square, tapered, external chimney
to North East. One-storey pent extension to South West, weatherboarded,
under steep, tiled roof with visible rafter ends; with stepped rectangular,
external chimney at South West corner. Later, pent extensions of 1 and 2
storeys under slated roofs, to East and West. Later, beamed ceiling and
open fireplace to main, ground floor room.