Caxton House

Caxton House is a late 17th-century inn, altered in the 18th and late 19th centuries, and now used as a house, shop, and Post Office. It is timber-framed with plastered walls and a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. The building has a square plan facing north-northwest, with two internal stacks and three storeys plus cellars. The ground floor contains a pair of late 19th-century shops with a centrally positioned door to the house. The shops have splayed bays of three lights, with panelled sections below a joint fascia. Each shop has a glazed door with a plain overlight. The fascia is supported by four-panelled pilasters with elaborate carved and scrolled brackets, topped by a moulded cornice. The central door is six-panelled, with flush bottom panels, raised ovals on the upper panels, and a plain overlight, accompanied by similar panelling in the door jambs. The first floor has two 18th-century splayed bays of eight-pane sashes, with a central sash of twelve panes. The splayed bays continue to the second floor, featuring three sashes of four-six-four lights in each, and a central sash of six lights. A dentil-moulded cornice with a triglyph frieze runs along the top, returning at each end, and is topped by a plain parapet that follows the line of the bays. The roof is hipped. The building was recorded as The Crown Inn in 1692, a brewery in 1792, and a printing house in 1889.