The Strafford Arms

The Strafford Arms is an early 18th-century public house, later refenestrated in the early 19th century, originally built as part of the Wentworth Castle estate. It is constructed of coursed, dressed sandstone with a Welsh slate roof. The building is five bays wide, with a lean-to addition to the right, a wing to the rear left, and an outshut in the angle. Large quoins are present. The central doorway has a 20th-century double door set within a square-faced ashlar surround, featuring impost blocks, a plain lintel and a dripstone. The other bays have sash windows with glazing bars, now fitted with louvred shutters, all within projecting square-faced surrounds. The roof has cavetto-moulded gable copings. The building has a corniced end stack on the left and a rendered brick end stack on the right. The lean-to addition to the right features a paired sash window and a crow-stepped half gable. The building is depicted on Badeslade’s Prospect of Stainborough from 1730.