The Well House And The Elephant And Castle Hotel

This is an early 18th-century house, later used as an inn and now serving as both a house and an inn. The building is constructed of red brick, with some areas featuring tuck pointing, and painted sandstone ashlar dressings. It has a plain tile roof. The house is two storeys and an attic, with a basement below.

The main façade features a chamfered plinth, raised chamfered quoins, a plat band, and a moulded stone eaves cornice. A central break is marked by quoins and an oeil-de-boeuf (round window) set within a triangular-pedimented gable, the gable having a moulded architrave. Parapeted gable ends are topped with chamfered stone copings and moulded kneelers, with integral brick end stacks positioned to the left and an external brick end stack to the right. There are two gabled dormers with two-light wooden casements. The front has a 2:1:2 bay arrangement, with segmental-headed wooden cross windows featuring painted keystones. A central 18th-century door, featuring raised and fielded panels and glazed upper panels, is set within a moulded architrave with a keystone. A porch of the early 19th century, with a Tuscan frieze, moulded cornice, and a locking course displaying the Corbet rebus (a raven) in raised centre, leads to the front door.

An early 18th-century addition is set back to the right, with a plinth, raised chamfered quoins, a plat band, and a wooden dentil eaves cornice. It has an integral brick end stack to the right and a two-window front with segmental-headed, two- and three-light wooden mullioned and transomed casements, also with keystones. A central 18th-century door, with six raised and fielded panels, is accessed by two steps and is framed by Doric pilaster strips and carved brackets supporting a flat hood with a moulded cornice and blocking course. A mid-to-late 19th-century service wing adjoins the right side and a mid-to-late 19th-century rear wing includes two brick stacks.

The interior has an early 18th-century staircase featuring an open string with three turned balusters per tread, turned newel posts, a ramped moulded handrail, and raised and fielded ramped wainscot panelling. A room on the left-hand side of the ground floor retains early 18th-century raised and fielded wainscot panelling. The right-hand ground-floor room has a large, altered late 18th-century fireplace and an early 18th-century arched wall cupboard, along with six-panelled doors with moulded architraves. It has been suggested that when the early 19th-century porch was added, the former 18th-century doorcase was reused for the entrance to the two-storey wing. This is a well-preserved example of an early 18th-century house, demonstrably similar in design to Higher House.