The Malt Shovel Public House

The Malt Shovel Public House is a public house located on the site of an older building. It features a 14th-century cellar with a late 19th-century public house above, which was altered in the 20th century. The structure has two storeys and a cellar, with four first-floor windows. The exterior is made of red brick, with glazed tiles on the ground floor and timber-framing on the first floor, topped by a Welsh slate roof.

On the ground floor, there is a wide passage opening to the right that leads to the rear, and to the left, a segmental tripartite bow window with a part-glazed door underneath an overlight. The first floor displays studding with central braces, interrupted by paired casement windows. All windows and the door feature leaded glazing. A brick ridge stack is positioned to the left of the door.

Inside, the cellar beneath the front of the building contains two bays of sexpartite rib vaulting, with heavy, deeply chamfered ashlar ribs that extend into the side walls. Each bay has a circular boss, with the northern one damaged and the southern one featuring a fine face mask. The ashlar door surround has a chamfered shouldered lintel and is rebated for an outward-opening door. A flagged barrel-vaulted passage curves as it ascends to stone steps at the rear of the front range, and the bar area has imported chamfered beams. The March 1968 Provisional List compares the cellar to one in Malton and a finer example in Gloucester. This building has been recorded by the West Yorkshire Archaeology Unit.