The Old Maidenhead

The Old Maidenhead is a former inn, now a house, dating to the late 15th or early 16th century. It incorporates an earlier structure with a later 17th-century wing, along with further alterations from the late 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed, resting on a sandstone plinth, originally with wattle-and-daub infill, but now entirely roughcast rendered. It has painted squared sandstone rubble for the porch and a 20th-century tiled roof.

The building comprises two parallel ranges running north-west to south-east, with gable ends facing the road. There are lateral stacks. An entrance is positioned on the right gable end, with a further entrance on the left-hand return of the left wing. The building is two storeys high. The entrance front has two gable ends. The earlier left-hand wing projects forward and features a 2-light 20th-century casement window and a canted bay window with casements to the ground floor. The gable end of the added wing to the right contains two 2-light casement windows on the upper floor, and a 3-light casement window to the right of the porch, which has a lead roof. A three-light casement window is located in the porch to the left of the square-headed doorway, which has a half-glazed inner door.

The interior reveals a moulded bressummer and former jetty on the eastern side of the earlier wing, now enclosed within a central passageway. Close-studded timber framing of the earlier wings is also visible.