The Plume Of Feathers Public House

The Plume of Feathers Public House is a building that dates from the 18th and 19th centuries, with some fragments from the 17th century and alterations made in the 20th century. It features a mix of timber-frame construction with brick infill, and red brick in Flemish bond, which is painted at the rear and right side, while the ground floor at the front is stuccoed. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The building has two storeys and a cellar, comprising four bays with paired rear wings.

The late 19th to early 20th century pub frontage on the ground floor includes a door set in a reveal with a bracketed cornice, flanked by windows with etched glass in architraves. The left bay features a 20th-century door and window in what was once a carriage archway. The first-floor windows have architraves and six-pane sashes, with the third bay displaying a pub sign and a decorative iron bracket supporting a signboard. The eaves are stepped and dentilled.

At the rear, the right wing is an early 19th-century gabled structure, featuring two sashes with glazing bars in segmental-arched reveals on the first floor and a ridge stack. The ground floor has 20th-century additions that are not of special interest. The left wing shows exposed 18th-century style timber-framing on the right return, with a three-light small-pane 20th-century wood casement on the first floor, a hipped roof with a ridge stack, and a single-storey wing projecting on the ground floor.

Inside, the first floor has stop-chamfered beams in the front range, 19th-century panelled doors, and in the rear right wing, a jowelled 17th-century style hall post, wall plates, and a late 18th or early 19th-century style brick fireplace. The roof contains some old timbers, including beams in the right-hand half of the front range, and evidence of a 17th-century closing truss between the two halves. The right-hand side shows signs of former use as an attic room, including graffiti from 1895 by a former publican named H and W Rickson. At the left end, there is plasterwork infilling the line of an earlier gable, adorned with a decorative painted panel featuring fleur de lis finials, enclosing late 18th-century style text that is now illegible.

The pub has been licensed since 1750 and changed its name from "The Black Horse" to "The Plume of Feathers" in 1865.