The Buck

The Buck is a cottage that was formerly an inn, likely built in the early 17th century. It was extended in the early 19th century with later additions and alterations. The exterior features painted brick that conceals and partially replaces the original timber frame, topped with a plain tile roof.

Originally, the building had a single-cell layout, which was extended to the right in the early 19th century. There is a late 19th-century gabled brick addition at a right angle to the rear on the right side. The structure is one storey with an attic, featuring one 20th-century casement window on each side of a roughly central gabled brick porch that covers a six-panel door. Above the casements are 20th-century gabled eaves dormers. A prominent red brick ridge stack is located on the left, with an additional late 19th-century brick shaft that was formerly an end stack, and a late 19th-century brown brick stack behind the ridge to the right.

Inside, the left-hand ground-floor room has a chamfered cross-beam with ogee stops and heavy joists. The former right gable end of the original cottage, visible in the roof space, features V-struts from the collar. There are also brick cellars, and evidence of structural framing in the former back wall was discovered during restoration work around 1982.

The building was previously known as the Buck's Head Inn until around 1860.