The College Arms Public House Including Attached Stable Block

The College Arms public house, along with its attached stable block, dates largely from the 17th century, with additions from the 18th and 19th centuries. The main body is constructed of brick in a Flemish stretcher bond, featuring a tile roof with brick cross-axial stacks. A cross wing is built of coursed squared ironstone with a steeply pitched stone slate roof laid in diminishing courses, incorporating a coped gable and a stone lateral stack with offsets.

The building has a 4-unit plan. The exterior is single storey plus attic, with a 5-window range and a 2-storey-plus-attic wing. A top modillioned cornice is present, and a left-hand addition has an exposed wall plate, with further additions including a hipped outshut to the return. A plat band is found at the right end. The central entrance is marked by a 20th-century porch with paired doors and flanking benches, alongside canted bay windows with transomed casements under a hipped tile canopy. A square window to the right has small-paned glazing; two 20th-century casements are on the left end, and a small 1st-floor window is also present. Three gabled dormers feature 2-light small-paned casements.

The cross wing’s coped end gable has a damaged fleuron. A ground-floor window has a keyed flat arch over a 4-light casement; a similar 3-light casement is on the 1st floor, alongside a 2-light casement to the attic, all with leaded glazing. The left return features a gabled porch with a plank door and a 2-light recessed hollow-chamfered mullioned window with labelmould, alongside a similar 3-light 20th-century window. The 1st floor has similar 2-light and 4-light windows, all with leaded glazing; a blocked opening with a timber lintel is obscured by an 18th-century wing. The right return contains an external lateral stack; a 3-light window is on the ground floor to the right of the stack, and two 2-light windows are on the 1st floor, one blocked. The rear has undergone varied alterations, including a 2-light window to the 1st floor.

The attached 19th-century stable block has a slate roof, a segmental-headed stable door flanked by windows similar to those in the main building, now shuttered. It also has a large segmental-headed window with small-paned glazing, a gabled loading door to the left, and a 1991 louvred lantern to the right.

The interior has 20th-century alterations but retains chamfered beams and a fireplace with a bressumer in the wing, and a similar stone fireplace to a rear room, which features some re-used 17th-century panelling. The property is named after Magdalen College, Oxford, which owns land in the parish.