Shakespeare Public House

The Shakespeare Public House is a public house dating from the 17th century, with a porch dated 1655. It has undergone alterations and extensions in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame with angle bracing and whitewashed brick nogging, some of which is in a herringbone pattern. It has a blackened granite rubble plinth and a thatched roof with a whitewashed chimney made of narrow brick located between the left bays. The structure is one and a half storeys tall and consists of three bays.

The 20th-century windows are three-light leaded casements, with those on the first floor also set in thatch. There is a lobby entry between the left bays, which includes an old board door and the dated porch. The porch features timber jambs with bracket-shaped top ends, a moulded lintel with the date and a small central pendant, and a half-hipped thatch roof. The right gable end of the building has been rebuilt in brick, while the left end has a 19th and 20th-century whitewashed brick extension that is two storeys tall and approximately three bays wide, also under a thatched roof. This extension includes 20th-century leaded casements and double doors set in a brick surround.

At the rear, there are further extensions around a courtyard. The interior of the 17th-century part retains timber framing in the partitions and part of the rear wall. It features chamfered spine beams with some stops. The chimney has a stop-chamfered wooden lintel on the left and an ovolo-moulded lintel on the right.