8 and 9 Vine Street (including the Blue Pig Inn)

Public house and shop, originally constructed in the 16th century with further phases of development in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The building comprises squared and coursed limestone rubble to the ground floor with exposed timber framing and rendered infill to the first floor. The western gable end wall of number 8, a brick extension fronting Swinegate, and a brick screening wall to the west of number 9 are of brick construction, with 20th-century brick chimney stacks. The roof is covered in clay pantiles.

The plan is C-shaped, with the principal earlier range facing Vine Street to the south and two additional ranges running north along the west and east boundaries of the plot, the easternmost fronting Swinegate.

The principal range is two storeys high under a gabled roof, six bays wide onto Vine Street. The public house occupies the four easternmost bays, while the two westernmost bays form a separate property formerly used as a hairdresser. The four easternmost bays contain three 20th-century timber mullion windows with leaded casements and a plain doorway with timber lintel. The two western bays have a 19th-century shopfront with two large fixed windows with timber glazing bars and reeded surrounds, and an off-centre recessed doorway containing a half-glazed door with a rectangular fanlight above. To the west of the shopfront is a red brick screening wall with a plain timber door and fixed timber casement window on the first floor. On the Swinegate elevation is another plain doorway with timber lintel and a late-20th-century door.

The first floor features exposed, close-studded timber framing with braces including down braces, and is jettied out over the ground floor. The lower part of the roof projects over the first floor, forming deep eaves along the southern elevation. At first-floor level, the four western bays contain five window openings: the two westernmost are a pair of horizontal-sliding six-pane sashes, while the three others are timber casements with leaded lights, probably of the 20th century but reusing original window openings. The two westernmost bays contain two timber sash windows with margin glazing bars set within simply-moulded surrounds set forward of the timber framing. In the pitched roof over the shop are two pitched-roof dormers containing horizontal-sliding sashes. The eastern gable wall contains a single timber casement with leaded lights at first-floor level. A tall brick chimney stack of the late-19th or 20th century rises through the pitched roof adjacent to the northern range.

To the north of the stone and timber-framed element is a two-storey, three-bay range fronting Swinegate, constructed of painted brickwork under a pitched pan-tiled roof with a 19th-century red brick chimney stack rising off-centre through the ridge. On the ground floor, a single timber mullion window with leaded casements appears in the southernmost bay, and a carriage entrance with a pair of large plank doors with moulded timber jambs and lintel is in the northernmost bay. The north-east corner is curved, unified by a stone corbel that connects the curved lower and right-angled upper sections. On the first floor, a timber mullion window with leaded casements is positioned above the ground-floor window, and a six-over-six sash window with segmental-arched head is set centrally and lower on the elevation, possibly lighting a staircase. Above the carriage entrance is a hatched hay loft with timber lintel and plank-and-batten shutters. Immediately below the hatch is a square iron wall tie plate.