Shepherd And Sheperdess Public House And Holly House

The Shepherd and Shepherdess Public House and Holly House is a public house and private house dating from the mid-18th century, with later additions from the late 19th century. The building features dressed stone, although the public house section is covered by painted roughcast, and it has a Welsh slate roof with ashlar chimney stacks.

The front of the building is long and two stories high, consisting of four bays for the public house and three bays for Holly House, which is located to the right. The public house has a low plinth and raised quoins on the left side. There is an off-centre four-panel door with an overlight set in a stone doorcase that has square-plan piers, moulded capitals, and a hood. Above the hood are two life-sized painted lead figures from the 18th century, representing a Shepherdess and a Shepherd. The windows have been replaced with 12- and 16-pane sashes, and there is a Victorian post box on the right.

Holly House features two replaced doors flanking a central window: the left door has a five-pane overlight in a tooled flush surround, while the right door has a four-pane overlight in a projecting surround with a bracketed segmental hood. The windows are set in flush surrounds with top and bottom blocks and projecting sills, with replaced casements on the ground floor and 16-pane sashes above. A large circular clock face is situated on the first floor. The roof is continuous and steeply pitched, hipped at the left, and there are three ridge stacks with top bands. The right return of Holly House has a reverse-stepped gable, and there is a two-storey, two-bay late 19th-century wing at the left rear of the public house.

There are 20th-century additions on the left return and rear of the public house that are not of special interest. The lead figures are believed to have been imported from France as "Works of Art" to circumvent an embargo on lead imports during the Napoleonic Wars.