The Fleece Inn

The Fleece Inn is a public house that originated as a home in the early 17th century, with a date of around 1610 noted on the back door lintel. It is constructed from thin hammer-dressed stone and features a stone slate roof, except for the porch above the door, which is fronted in ashlar. The building is two storeys high and is arranged in a hall-and-cross-wings U-plan, with a kitchen wing projecting from the centre at the rear.

The south front has the main entrance located at the east end of the hall range, protected by a two-storey porch with a gable situated between the hall range and the east wing. The porch door has a depressed Tudor arched head with spandrels and opens into a through passage. Above the porch are two three-light arch-headed chamfered mullioned windows, which are the only ones in the building and may suggest a different date for the porch or that it has been reused from another location.

The main front features four gables, with both the east and west wings and the central hall displaying twelve-light double chamfered mullioned windows that include a King mullion and transom. A continuous string course runs across the front above the ground floor windows, which have five-light double chamfered mullioned windows on the first floor with a string course above. The projecting wings have quoins and coped gables with kneelers. The east wing includes a double chamfered three-light mullioned attic window with a double string course above the gable, likely serving as a pigeon columbarium. The hall chamber gable features an arch-headed recess.

All chimney stacks date from the late 18th or 19th century. Internally, the first floor reveals that some of the original internal divisions between rooms were made of timber. The closing truss at the east end of the hall range includes a King-post and seven 'V' braces.