Welcome Sailor Public House

The Welcome Sailor Public House dates to the late 16th or early 17th century. It is a brick building, though the rear first floor retains rendered timber framing, with a gabled plain tile roof and two rebuilt stacks, each featuring four shafts in a concertina form. The building has a gabled front facing onto the road, with seven window bays. There are four gabled dormers on the southwest side, each with a steep pediment, moulded verges, and a two-light casement window with a single horizontal glazing bar. The first floor has sash windows with a central vertical glazing bar. The ground floor has a canted bay window with sash windows, a hipped plain tile roof, and a door with a hood supported by consoles, alongside a six-pane window. The southeast corner is canted at ground-floor level, with a triangular sloping soffit above. The front of the building, dating to the mid-19th century, features a fascia, four pilasters, and two two-light windows with leaded light glazing extending around to the southeast front, including a small two-light casement window in the gable and a similar sash window on the first floor.

A single-storey extension in white weatherboarding is located on the southwest elevation, with a simple door and a two-light window, topped by a gabled plain tile roof. The rear elevation displays a patch of old decorative plasterwork and a smaller structure at right angles, one wall of which is black weatherboarded, another is rendered, and both have gabled plain tile roofs. Behind the main range stands a monopitched single-storey red-brick building (now a bar) and a stable block, partly red brick and partly timber-framed with black boarding, covered by a low-pitched gabled pantile roof. A small area of the roof has been replaced with concrete pantiles.

The main block was likely originally constructed with a ground floor of brick and timber framing. The interior boasts high-quality timber framing with five bridging joists, chamfered above ground floor, and a similar arrangement with lambs-tongue stops on the first floor; all joists are small and square. Remnants of original fireplaces are present, including one in the cellar. The building also features two tight winder stairs and a continuous attic storey. The building is significant for the group value it holds as a well-preserved historic public house. It was formerly known as Wrenches and thought to have been rebuilt around 1570, a date which may reflect the building's origins.