The Brandy Cask

The Brandy Cask is an inn, reputedly dating to 1779, with alterations made in the early and late 19th century. The inn is constructed of brick, which is painted or rendered with scored stucco. The left-hand section has a shallow-pitched roof of Welsh slate with a moulded eaves cornice and two brick end stacks. A canted bay on this section has its roof concealed behind a high, coped parapet. The right-hand bay has a replacement roof of plain tiles with stepped cogged eaves.

The inn presents three storeys and a basement; the right-hand section has two storeys. The left-hand section is a two-window range with 8/8 sash windows, each with painted channelled voussoirs, keystones and a sillband to the first floor. Similar 4/8 sashes are above. Steps lead to a central six-panel door with a Gothick-traceried overlight and a wooden architrave, flanked by canted bay windows with 2/2 sashes, all under an entablature with a triglyph frieze. The right-hand bay has a late 19th-century full-height canted bay with basket-arched openings and moulded surrounds, featuring 2-pane sashes. There are four windows on each upper floor, paired at the centre with cable moulding. On the ground floor, a central six-panel two-leaf door with overlight is flanked by windows, with a plinth, a first-floor string and a sill band. The lower right-hand bay has a two-light window of paired sashes over a segmental-arched carriage entrance. A rear range includes a former liquor store. The interior was not inspected.