The Downe Arms Inn

SNAITH AND COWICK MARKET PLACE SE 6422 (south side) 12/75 No 15 (The Downe Arms Inn) (formerly listed as 23.4.52 Down Arms Hotel) GV II Inn. Mid C18 with early C19 bow windows. For Downe Estate. Brown brick. Clay tile roof; lead roofs to bow windows. Double-depth plan, originally with 2-room central entrance-hall front (now one room); wing to rear right. 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Plinth, angle pilasters to returns. 3 blocked basement openings. Entrance to right of centre has 4 stone steps to fielded-panel door and plain overlight in architrave beneath channelled wedge lintel with fluted key. Large single bow windows to either side, each with three 16-pane flush sashes, pilasters with fluted necking, entablature with moulded cornice and half-domed roofs. First floor: C19 4-pane sashes in original openings with flush wooden architraves, projecting sills and channelled and keyed wedge lintels. Second floor: original 8-pane sashes in similar surrounds. Moulded cornice. Partly-projecting end stacks with rebuilt upper sections. 2-course first-floor bands to side elevations. Interior: fielded-panel doors to first floor; landing contains good re-set late C17 balustrade with moulded handrail and bulb-on-urn balusters with circular knops, traditionally associated with former courtroom in the inn.

Listing NGR: SE6419822130