Sheaf House Public House

Sheaf House Public House is a building that dates back to around 1800, with later alterations from the late 19th and late 20th centuries. It was likely built for John Younge. The structure is made of brick with a whitewashed stucco front, featuring ashlar dressings and a hipped slate roof with two coped brick stacks on the sides.

The exterior includes a plinth, a first-floor band, a sill band, dentilled eaves, and a blocking course. It stands two storeys tall and has a window arrangement of three by four. The central bay slightly projects and has a dentilled pediment with a plain sash window that has a cornice supported by brackets. On either side of this bay are plain sash windows with incised lintels and keystones.

There is a central square porch from the late 19th century, which features a reset ashlar doorcase with Doric columns and an open pediment on scroll brackets, containing an oval light with lattice glazing bars. This porch has late 20th-century double doors. Flanking the porch are canted wooden bay windows with fixed lights, connected to the porch by wooden cross casements set at an angle. The right side of the building has three 12-pane sash windows, with a reglazed and reduced window to the right. Below, on the left, there are three 12-pane sashes followed by a late 20th-century fire door. All these openings are topped with brick flat arches.

Inside, the porch has a screen with a triple round-headed window from around 1900. The entrance hall features a dentilled cornice and a moulded round arch leading into the room on the right. The stairwell has an enriched dentilled cornice and retains the upper flight of a cantilever stone staircase. The main ground floor rooms are connected by large openings added in the late 20th century. John Younge operated a rolling mill on an adjacent site around 1788, and Sheaf House was converted into a pleasure ground and hotel in the late 19th century.