The Plough Hotel

The Plough Hotel is a late 19th-century public house and hotel, incorporating elements of an earlier building. Constructed of red brick in an English garden wall bond, with red sandstone dressings and a slate roof with red ridge tiles, it has a double-pile plan, with an earlier block set back and attached to the left. The building features four corbelled chimneys and four bays. Full-height octagonal gabled bays, flanking the entrance, are accentuated by a painted stone architrave. A single-storey octagonal bay is present, with two pairs of sash windows above and a wooden dentillated cornice at first floor level. The gables display mock timber framing, barge boards, and finials. A deep bracketed eaves cornice, a moulded red terracotta frieze, and sandstone plaques displaying the words "Plough" and "Hotel" are also present. Sash windows are found throughout, with those at the first floor level having upper sashes and margin lights. Ground-floor windows retain etched and cut glass with the inscriptions "Bar" and "Plough Hotel.” A right-hand return elevation shows an off-centre entrance to an outdoor department, supported by carved stone brackets.

The interior retains its late 19th-century plan in virtually unaltered condition. A vestibule with a door to the right leads to a hall featuring a black and white mosaic floor and a dado of dark green glazed tiles with decorative panels in pale blue and cream, extending up the stairwell. Vertically hung sliding sash windows with margin lights and coloured and textured glass are present in the bar hatches. Two rooms to the left have doors with paired glazed panels, lobby screens, and fixed upholstered seating with bell-pushes. The front room retains a plaster cornice and frieze featuring swags. The vault exhibits fixed bench seating with matchboard backs, a plaster cornice and frieze, an ornate lobby screen, and a heavy panelled wooden bar with foliated consoles. A modern glass rack is above, while the original ornate bar-back is in a debased Jacobean style with mirrors. A door from the vault leads to the outdoor department, which features a tiled dado and a hatch with a gas light fitting above. A room to the rear has been altered. A first-floor meeting room retains original fireplaces. The cellars include three brick barrel vaults relating to an earlier building, and a fourth cellar with transverse brick jack arches, dating from the rebuilding.

Attached to the main building is an altered block from the early 19th century containing a brick boiler and a stone sink. The site was previously home to a beerhouse licensed in 1823, and the cellars, outbuilding, and part of the back wall likely date from this period.