50, Church Street

No. 50 on Church Street is a cottage that was formerly a public house, dating from the early 17th century. It features oak small framing with diagonal braces under the eaves and is brick-nogged except in the gables, topped with clay tile roofs. The building has one storey plus an attic, with a left wing containing two rooms and a projecting right cross-gable. It has a sandstone plinth and is partly rendered. The entrance includes an oak boarded door with ornate hinges typical of the Arley estate and an Arley latch. The windows are small-pane casements, replaced in the 19th century, and there is an oak finial on the cross-gable. An eyebrow dormer with swept tiling is present, along with a blocked four-light mullioned window at the corner of the cross-wing. The chimney structure includes a square four-flue chimney on the ridge where the wings meet and a lateral chimney with one flue at the front left corner. Inside, there is a brick barrel-vaulted cellar with a cobbled floor, partly replaced with stone flags. The oak frame is largely intact, with some wattle-and-daub, and features an inglenook bressumer made of oak. The broad-board oak doors, some likely from the 17th century, have old hinges.