The following text is from the original listed building designation:
BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA HEATH ROAD TQ 75 SE (North Side) Cock Street
1/28 The Cock Inn 23.5.67
GV II
Public house. C17 or late C16. Timber framed. Ground floor painted brick, first floor hung with mathematical tiles. Some exposed framing towards end of left wing and to right gable end. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys on painted plinth. Steeply-pitched hipped roof, left hip returning. Projecting brick stack to left gable end and buff and red brick stack in rear slope of roof towards left. Brick stack towards front of right gable end. Irregular fenestration of 3 casements; no windows to left, one 2-light casement under stack and two 3-light to right. Half glazed door under flat bracketed hood beneath stack. Rear lean-to. Timber framed rear return wing to left. Exposed solid-spandrel arch-braces to right gable end, that towards front carved with key and crown, that towards rear with fruit and flowers. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing. Large stone fireplace. Evidence for continuous jetty to front elevation.
Listing NGR: TQ7763550863

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.