Cockshutt is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. The parish contains 20 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".[1] The parish contains the village of Cockshutt and the surrounding countryside. Most of the listed buildings are houses, cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings, a high proportion of which are timber framed. The other listed buildings are a public house and a church with a sundial and memorials in the churchyard, including a war memorial.
The farmhouse was extended later in the 17th century, and there have been later alterations. The original part is timber framed with brick infill, and the farmhouse has been largely encased in brick and painted to resemble timber framing at the front, and it is rendered at the rear. The roof is slated, and there are two storeys and attics. The left return has a jetty and a mouldedbressumer. Most of the windows are sashes, with segmental heads in the ground floor, and in the attics are casement windows.[2][4]
A timber framed cottage with brick infill on a rendered stone plinth, and with a thatched roof. There is one storey and an attic, two bays, and a red brick outbuilding at the right rear corner. The windows are casements with lattice glazing.[6]
The barn is timber framed and weatherboarded, and has a corrugated iron roof. It has an L-shaped plan, and contains openings, including doorways and hatches.[7]
A farmhouse, later a private house, it is timber framed with roughcastinfill, and was refaced at the front and left gable end in red brick in the 18th century. The roof is slated, there are two storeys and an attic, and two bays. The windows are casements with segmental heads.[8]
A farmhouse that was later remodelled and extended, it is in red brick on a chamfered and stepped plinth, with a band and a hipped tile roof. The house has an L-shaped plan, two storeys and attics, and a garden front of five bays. The windows vary; there are cross-windows, sashes, casements, dormers, and a French window. Attached to the house is a garden wall in red brick with sandstonecoping, buttressed on the outside.[9]
A house, later a public house, it is timber framed with rendered and brick infill on a sandstoneplinth, and it has been largely rebuilt in brick. There are two storeys, a main range of three bays, and a lower range to the left of two bays. The windows are casements, those in the ground floor with segmental heads. There are stables to the left of the lower range, and extensions to the rear of the main range.[10]
A timber framed cottage with red brick infill and a thatched roof. It has one storey and an attic, two bays, and a brick lean-to at the rear. On the front is a gabled porch, the windows are casements, and in the attic is a straight eyebrow eavesdormer with two casements.[11]
The farmhouse is in red brick with a dentilledeavescornice and a slate roof. It has one storey and an attic, and a short rear range. The windows are casements with segmental heads, and above are gabled eaves dormers.[13]
A farmhouse, later a public house, it is in brick on a chamferedplinth, and has a slate roof. There is a T-shaped plan, the main part with two storeys, a cellar and an attic, and three bays, sash windows, and three gabled roof dormers. To the rear is a two-storey range in sandstone, and a further single-storey extension.[a][15]
The farmhouse is in red brick with a dentilledeavescornice and a hippedslate roof. There are three storeys, three bays, and a lower service range at the rear. The windows in the lower two floors are sashes with segmental heads, and in the top floor they are casements.[16]
The sundial is in the churchyard of the Church of St Simon and St Jude. It is in limestone, and consists of a vase-shaped baluster with a mouldedplinth and capping, and it has a brass plate and gnomon.[17]
The church was restored in 1886–87 when the porch and vestry were added. It is in red brick and has roofs of slate with coped verges. The church consists of a nave with a timber south porch, a polygonal apsidalchancel with a north vestry, and a west tower. The tower has three unequal stages, the top stage recessed with corner pilasters rising to small pyramidal pinnacles. Between them is a plain parapet with similar pinnacles at the midpoints. The windows in the tower are round-headed, and in the body of the church they have pointed heads.[2][18]
The memorial is in the churchyard of the Church of St Simon and St Jude, and is to the memory of members of the Burlton family. It is a pedestal tomb in limestone, and has a mouldedplinth and capping, an urn finial, and moulded inscription panels with a flutedcornice above. The memorial stands in an enclosure with twisted cast iron railings.[19]
The memorial is in the churchyard of the Church of St Simon and St Jude, and is to the memory of members of the Burlton family. It is a chest tomb in limestone, and has a rectangular shape with tapering ends. The tomb has a mouldedplinth on ball feet, a chamfered top with a brass plaque, and moulded inscription panels. There is a broken urn-shaped finial. The memorial stands in an enclosure with cast iron railings.[20]
The memorial is in the churchyard of the Church of St Simon and St Jude, and is to the memory of two members of the Phillips family. It is a chest tomb in limestone, and has a rectangular shape with tapering ends. The tomb has a mouldedplinth on ball feet, fluted corner piers, a chamfered top with a broken finial, and moulded inscription panels.[21]
The war memorial is in the churchyard of the Church of St Simon and St Jude. It is in Cornish grey granite, and consists of a Celtic wheel-cross on a tapering rectangular shaft. This stands on a two-stepped plinth, on a two-stepped base with chamfered corners. On the head of the cross is reliefmouldedknot work, and a domed circular centre. The plinth has an inscription and the names of those lost in the First World War, and there is a granite table with another inscription and the names of those lost in the Second World War.[22]
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^Street View in May 2011 shows that the name of the public house has been changed to The Leaking Tap.