The Griffin Inn

The Griffin Inn is a public house that dates back to 1642, with a mid-18th century addition to the south. It features two cells that face the road and form the main entrance. The building is two storeys high and constructed from thin coursed hammer dressed stone, topped with a stone slate roof. It has two bays of flat faced mullioned windows, consisting of six lights and four lights, with matching windows on the first floor. There is a doorway at the left end with monolithic jambs and a central stack on the ridge. The later cottages attached to either end are not included in this listing.

The oldest part of the building consists of two parallel ranges at the rear, which are rendered except for the windows. This section is also two storeys high with a stone slate roof. The eastern wing features a six-light double chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould that served as the former parlour, along with a six-light chamfered mullioned window above it on the first floor. The right-hand return wall has a coped gable with a contemporary stack and a blocked two-light chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould, which has a straight return and a matching window above on the first floor. The western wing projects forward and has a two-light chamfered mullioned window that is partly obscured by a flat-roofed single-storey extension from the late 20th century. The gable features a large extruded stack from the former kitchen.

Inside, the rear kitchen includes a basket-arched fireplace with a chamfered surround and a well-preserved bee-hive oven. The eastern wing has a basket-arched fireplace with a cyma moulded surround and sunken spandrels, featuring a lintel dated 1642 set within a tressure, which heated the former parlour. Most ceilings throughout the building are supported by chamfered spine beams with stop chamfered floor joists.