The Downe Arms Inn

The Downe Arms Inn is a mid-18th century inn with early 19th century bow windows, originally built for the Downe Estate. It is constructed of brown brick and features a clay tile roof, with lead roofs on the bow windows. The building has a double-depth plan, originally designed with a two-room central entrance hall, which has since been converted into one room, and a wing at the rear right.

The inn stands three storeys high and has four first-floor windows. It includes a plinth and angle pilasters on the returns, along with three blocked basement openings. The entrance, located to the right of the center, has four stone steps leading up to a fielded-panel door with a plain overlight, all set within an architrave beneath a channelled wedge lintel featuring a fluted key. On either side of the entrance are large single bow windows, each containing three 16-pane flush sashes, supported by pilasters with fluted necking, an entablature with a moulded cornice, and half-domed roofs.

On the first floor, there are 19th century four-pane sashes in their original openings, complete with flush wooden architraves, projecting sills, and channelled and keyed wedge lintels. The second floor retains original eight-pane sashes in similar surrounds, along with a moulded cornice. The building has partly-projecting end stacks with rebuilt upper sections and features two-course first-floor bands on the side elevations.

Inside, the first floor has fielded-panel doors, and the landing showcases a well-preserved late 17th century balustrade with a moulded handrail and bulb-on-urn balusters with circular knops, which is traditionally associated with a former courtroom in the inn.