The Ball Public House

The Ball Public House is a public house built in 1904, with alterations made in the late 20th century. It was constructed for John Smith's Brewery of Tadcaster. The building features red brick and ashlar, with granite, terracotta, and ashlar dressings, topped with a slate roof that has two coped gable stacks. It is designed in the Baroque Revival style.

The ground floor is made of ashlar and includes moulded sillbands. The building is three storeys high and has a symmetrical front with three bays. The central bay has a Venetian window with plain sashes and a double keystone. Below this window is a round-arched ashlar doorcase featuring a shaped keystone and bulged granite columns, which is topped by a segmental hood supported by enriched scroll brackets. The door is a late 20th-century double door with a blank fanlight above.

On either side of the central bay, there are two-storey bow windows, each with a shallow half-dome and a five-light cross mullioned window on each floor. The second floor has bays separated by Ionic columns on scroll corbels, topped with ball finials above the cornice. A heavy dentilled cornice features breaks, and each bay has round arches. In each bay, there are double plain sashes with Gibbs surrounds and double keystones. Above the windows, round-arched panels display lettering in relief, with the central bay stating "Ball Inn rebuilt 1904" and the side bays reading "John Smith's Tadcaster Ales." The interior was refitted in the late 20th century.