Rose And Crown Inn

The Rose and Crown Inn is a public house dating back to the late 16th century, with subsequent alterations in the early 17th, late 17th, and 20th centuries. It is constructed of timber framing, with rendered walls and significant replacement brickwork on the ground floor, and has a peg-tiled roof. The building has a T-shaped plan, comprising a main range and a cross-wing.

The exterior displays a northeast front elevation with 20th-century casement windows; the ground floor has two windows of three lights each, and the first floor three windows of two lights. A red brick stack, built in the early 20th century, sits at the apex of the roof where the two units meet. The southwest elevation, at the rear, is partly obscured by 19th and 20th-century additions. The main range has a single-light window with leaded diamond panes on its first floor. The cross-wing also features a first-floor window, of two lights. A 19th-century red brick addition is located directly behind the main range, now with a flat roof and a 19th-century stack where it joins the timber-framed structure. Additional 20th-century features include a front door with an upper glazed panel, a single-light casement in a segment-headed opening, a door with two large glazed panels, and a lean-to on the northwest side of the 19th-century extension. The southeast end has a 20th-century three-light casement window above an extension. Exposed on the northwest end, the wall above the 20th-century extension reveals 17th-century brickwork cladding over the timber frame, now colourwashed, with a 20th-century two-light window.

The interior ground floor has been heavily rebuilt and features imitation timber framing. The building sequence includes a late 16th-century main range with a slightly cambered tie-beam and halved and bridled scarf joint in the wall plate. An early 17th-century cross-wing has a tie-beam with curved arched bracing and raking queen struts; its principal floor joists possess lamb's tongue chamfer stops. A later 17th-century roof raised the main range to the level of the cross-wing, creating two full stories. The rear bay of the cross-wing was likely rebuilt during this time, evidenced by rudimentary primary braced studding. Historic records describe a principal stack of early 17th-century design, of a "cross shaped" configuration set diagonally, presumably contemporary with the cross-wing. Single-story 20th-century additions on the northwest and southeast ends are not included in the listing.