The Red Cow Public House, Cambridge
Description: The Red Cow Public House
Grade: II
Date Listed: 30 June 1993
English Heritage Building ID: 47935
OS Grid Reference: TL4496058374
OS Grid Coordinates: 544960, 258374
Latitude/Longitude: 52.2045, 0.1199
Location: Corn Exchange Street, Cambridge CB2 3QF
Locality: Cambridge
Local Authority: Cambridge City Council
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Postcode: CB2 3QF
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Listing Text
CAMBRIDGE CORN EXCHANGE STREET
TL 44 58 SE
6/10016 The Red Cow Public House
II
GV
Public House. 1898 by Richard Reynolds Rowe. Red brick and timber frame and plaster gable
and turret. Plain tile roof with gabled ends, hipped corner, bands of shaped tiles and crested
ridge-tiles. Brick gable end and axial stacks with corbelled brick caps and shafts. Plan: L-shaped
plan on corner site. Old English-Jacobethan style. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical
elevations and canted corner with ornate polygonal oriel turret with pargeted panels, carved
heraldic beasts and copper ogee dome with very tall finial and weathervane. N elevation 3:2
bays broad timber frame gable to left jettied out on canted bays and 2 canted arches between,
tripartite attic window and pargeting strapwork in gable and ornate pierced bargeboards, ball
finial and pendant. Between gable and turret 2 windows and large hipped dormer with deep
eaves. 3-bay W elevation with tripartite dormer, centre light segmentally arched. The ground
floor has plate glass windows with thin columns between and entablature above with moulded
cornice, the doorways with large console brackets and over-lights, the canted corner with pair
of doorways and semi-circular fanlights and cartouche in entablature above. On left of N
elevation the window is canted. Interior: Ground floor of saloons much altered.
Listing NGR: TL4496058374
Source: English Heritage
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