The Iron Rails

The Iron Rails is a house that was formerly an inn, built in the early 18th century. It features a rendered exterior with painted ashlar door and window surrounds, a Welsh slate roof, and brick chimneys. The building is L-shaped and has two storeys with five bays.

Access is via two steps flanked by iron railings leading to a four-panelled door set in a raised surround, topped by a wooden hood supported on wooden brackets. The windows are four-pane sash types, also in raised surrounds. The roof is steeply pitched, with kneelers, thin raised coping, and rebuilt end stacks.

Inside, there is a panelled entrance hall that includes one two-panelled door and two six-panelled doors. One of the ground-floor rooms features panelling dating from around 1700, a moulded wood cornice, and a fireplace with an eared architrave and pulvinated frieze. The 18th-century open-well staircase has turned balusters.

On the first-floor landing, there are two round-headed doors with fluted jambs and keystones. A first-floor room showcases early 18th-century panelling, fluted pilasters, a niche with a fluted keystone and shaped shelves, and a moulded wood cornice.