The Grapes Hotel

The Grapes Hotel is a public house dating to the later 18th century and early 19th century. It is constructed of handmade brick with stone dressings and scored render, all colour-washed, and has slate and tile roofs. The building follows a T-plan, with an early 19th-century front block of three bays and a longer rear wing likely dating to the late 18th century.

The symmetrical front facade has a central round-headed doorway with a moulded stone surround and scrolled keystone. It is flanked by two windows at ground floor and three above. Most windows are 4-pane sashes, all with splayed stone heads. The right gable wall is buttressed and has two small and one square window at ground floor, with another square window above; these are top-hung casements with glazing bars.

The rear range is in two parts. The first part is a large bay with a lean-to porch in the angle, featuring coupled square casements with small panes at ground floor and a 4-light sliding sash above. A large chimney is at the rear gable. The second, slightly lower, part, set back, has a segmental-headed door and window at ground floor, with a 3-light sliding sash and a 3-light casement above.

Inside, there are numbered doors at ground floor. An open-well dog-legged staircase has an open string, slender turned newels, stick balusters, and a ramped handrail. The entire first floor of the front block is a meeting room with a high ceiling divided into three pyramidal compartments, which have iron rings at the apexes, and is accessed by a door with a bolted hinged flap cut into one panel. The first floor of the rear range is longitudinally partitioned, with the west side stepped down and containing a small room at the far end incorporating a prison cell with a small barred window and a wooden bunk inside.

The building is said to have been used as a courthouse, and the front meeting room as a Masonic hall.