The Bear Public House

The Bear Public House is a public house dating from the 17th century, with a facade and rear wing added around 1870. It features a timber-frame structure with brick at the rear and a steep tiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, arranged symmetrically with a two-window range. The ground floor, which was altered in the 20th century, includes a deep fascia, an entrance to the left of center, and another at the right end. There are two canted oriel windows on the ground floor, while the first floor has two rectangular oriels with four round-headed lights each, featuring leaded glazing. The attic displays projecting windows with two round-headed lights, wide bracketed sills, cornices, and leaded glazing. The exterior showcases decorative timber-framing and includes a 19th-century moulded timber sign bracket with scrolled wrought-iron braces, which holds a 20th-century sign that originally featured a carved bear at the top. The rear of the building has a two-storey gabled wing and a single-storey wing at the end, with some revealed timber-framing that is close studded with a brace over the entrance to the left. The interior has been altered, but the roof is reported to have double trenched purlins, double collars with plain chamfers, and queen struts.