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© Mr Roger Ashley
IoE Number:
52710
Location:
25 CHURCH STREET (north side)
GAMLINGAY, SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Roger Ashley
Date Photographed:
02 March 2007
Date listed:
22 November 1967
Date of last amendment:
03 September 1986
Grade
II*
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GAMLINGAY CHURCH STREET
TL 2352 (North side)
11/46
The Cock Inn
22.11.67 (formerly listed as
No 25)
GV II*
Inn. Late C16 or early C17 extended at the rear. Timber framed, plaster
rendered. Tiled roof with ridge stack of late C17 or early C18 having
recesses in each face. Plan of baffle entry main range with contemporary
crosswing at west end. Main range of one storey and attic. Plaster walls
have border of scallop decoration to eaves and round some openings. (Probably
c.1712 - see no 36 Church Street). Three C19 dormers with reset lions head
masks to gables. Two hung sashes on either side of baffle entry doorway. One
small original closet window with leaded cames above the doorway. East gable
has scallop border carried round and interrupted by a lead roundel with trade
signs including a pike, flask, corkscrew, glass, stock for brick making etc.
West crosswing of two storeys with jettied first floor carried on scroll
brackets enriched with acanthus foliage. One window to each storey including
a twelve pane hung sash on ground floor. Club room added to north end of
crosswing. Interior: arch braced tie beams, rebuilt inglenook in main range.
Light framing to ceiling suggesting an insertion or rebuild or possibly a
later date. There has been an inn on the site since 1435. It is likely that
the present inn was built by John Russell in late C16. By his will of 1583 he
left gifts to the poor of Waresley and Gamlingay and directed that a memorial
should be erected on the house end of the inn. This may be the emblems at the
east end, although they have a closer similarity with the C18 plasterwork at
No 36 Church Street
RCHM: West Cabs mon (24)
VCH: Cambs Vol V p70
C Brown: Mss Notes