The Punch Bowl Public House

The Punch Bowl Public House is a public house built in 1930, which incorporates elements from early 17th century and early 19th century structures, with some later alterations. It was designed by Biscomb & Ferry for the Tadcaster Tower Brewery. The building features a timber-framed front set on limestone ashlar footings, with red herring-bone brick infill on the ground floor and plastered upper floors. The rear is constructed of orange-beige brick in English garden-wall bond or is rendered. The front has a gabled roof covered with plain tiles, while the rear roofs are hipped, made of slate and plain tiles, with brick stacks.

The building is two storeys high with attics and has two gabled bays with jettied upper floors. A glazed and boarded door is recessed to the right, beneath an ogee-arched overdoor panel that is carved with a vine-draped punch bowl. The inn front to the left features a five-light mullion and transom window facing the street, with two similar windows flanking the bar door, which has a carved panel above it, located in the canted right return. The first floor has two three-light oriel windows, and there is a three-light mullion window in the attic on the right bay only. All windows are casements, with square lattice lights on the ground floor and diamond lattice on the upper floors. The gables are finished with bargeboards that are carved with vine trails and finials, and the left gable is flanked by panels carved with lions bearing punch bowls, dated 1675 and 1930.

At the rear, the 17th century wing retains a three-course brick band and a truncated principal rafter beneath an altered roof. Inside, the ground floor is fitted throughout with tongue and groove panelling and wooden settles. The front bar features a round-arched brick fireplace, while the middle bar has a Tudor arched fireplace. The back bar incorporates beams and joists from the earlier building, with a stone flagged floor and a segment-arched 17th century brick fireplace still intact. A ceiling beam is supported on the clapper of a tenor bell that was replaced in York Minster in 1765.