The Blackbird Inn

The Blackbird Inn is a former manor house that has been converted into an inn. It features a medieval tower that was altered and had a house added to it in the mid-17th century for Mark Errington. The building was restored in the early 20th century. The tower is constructed of large random rubble and has a stone slate roof, while the attached house is made of roughly-dressed stone with a Welsh slate roof and old brick chimneys.

The tower, located on the left, has a large projecting chimney with a stone base that rises to two tall brick shafts. To the right, there is a projecting three-storey gabled frontispiece that is blank on the ground floor and oversails above on two large rounded corbels. Above this, there are two 2-light double-chamfered mullioned windows with strings that rise to form hoodmoulds. The roof is gabled with kneelers.

Between these projections, there is a 20th-century door, and on the first floor, a 2-light window with a hoodmould and a panel above inscribed with "M:E" for Mark Errington.

The attached house to the right has a three-bay layout with a central gabled porch that features a round-headed door in an architrave. It also has a stone slate roof. The original Tudor-arched doorway within has "M.E." inscribed on the lintel. Flanking canted bay windows and 2-light windows above have double-chamfered surrounds, which are now all from the 19th century.

On the left return, there are 4-light mullioned windows with hoodmoulds on the ground and first floors, along with a 2-light window above.

Inside the tower, the ground floor has a tunnel-vaulted ceiling and a large 17th-century fireplace, with the lintel carved with crenellations.