Marquess Of Exeter

The Marquess of Exeter is a public house located on Main Street in Lyddington, dating from the early to mid-17th century. The building features coursed ironstone rubble with a thatched roof and coped gables, flanked by brick chimneys, with a chimney made of pale limestone ashlar positioned to the right of center. It has a cross-passage plan and stands two storeys tall with three bays, including a passage between the right bays.

On the ground floor, there are barred wooden casements, with three-light windows in the outer bays and a four-light window in the center. The first floor has four sash windows set in architrave frames, with five-pane windows in the outer bays and a four-pane window in the center. All windows have small panes and wooden lintels. A top-lit flush-panelled door leads to the passage, framed by a four-centred chamfered arch. A stone wall conceals a 20th-century rendered extension to the right. The rear wall features a blocked three-light window with chamfered wooden mullions on the first floor to the right, along with 20th-century single-storey extensions.

Inside, the building showcases heavy stop-chamfered spine beams and a stop-chamfered wooden lintel above a large fireplace that backs onto the passage. There is also a two-light stone mullion window in the rear wall of the left bay.