The Jolly Sailor Public House (Part)

The Jolly Sailor Public House is a public house that dates back to around 1500, with early 19th-century additions. The main section features rendered timber-framing and has a hipped slate roof, while the older rear wing is rendered with a gabled plain tile roof.

The exterior of the main block is two storeys high and includes three sash windows with moulded surrounds and small panes on the first floor. The ground floor has a semicircular-arched door and a large 16-pane sash window, both flanked by a lean-to porch with painted weatherboarding and a fixed 9-pane window. The northeast corner of the building is rounded at the ground floor, featuring a curved 2-light window. The Church Street side has a flat-roofed bay window with square panes. The rear block has a tile roof that is gabled at the front and hipped with a gablet at the rear. On the Church Street elevation, there is a 12-pane horizontal-sliding casement window on the first floor, a central flush small-paned sash window, and a 20th-century doorcase with a hood on consoles. Similar early 19th-century doorcases are found on the southwest and southeast faces of this block. The main block also has a belvedere on the roof, which is rendered with a slate hipped roof and small-paned windows on three adjoining faces, along with a flagpole. There are two large stacks, one rendered, located between the blocks, and a hipped plain tile single-storey extension on the southwest side of the main building.

Inside, the rear block of the main range is a two-bay cross-wing that was formerly jettied towards the street. The floor joists feature central tenons with soffit shoulders and have an unusually deep trenching on their underside for the jetty bressumer. There is a cambered central tie beam on the first floor with one surviving short arch-brace from an unjowled storey post. Each bay has full-height unjowled posts extending to the roof plates. Repairs to the roof have revealed a crown-post structure with a plain post, cranked lateral braces, and notably cranked arched wall braces on the exterior of the gable facing the street.