Waggon And Horses Public House

The Waggon and Horses public house dates to the 16th century, with substantial alterations in the early 19th century and the 20th century. It is a timber-framed building, with plastered walls and flint and cobble walling, featuring bands of red brick and dressings; a principal stack is in gault brick, and the roof is slate-covered. The building has a rectangular plan, with an irregular addition to the northeast corner. The front, or south elevation, has a continuous range of four windows. A central stack is present, along with a smaller red brick stack at the east gable, and stucco quoins at the east end. Four doorways are visible, with simple moulded frames and doors – three are four-panelled, and the main entrance is two-panelled and glazed. The ground-floor windows include two 2-light casements with 4x4 panes, two 19th-century sash windows with horns, featuring 3x2 panes, and one small, narrow 19th-century single-light casement. The first-floor windows consist of two 19th-century windows with moulded frames, two 20th-century 2-light casements with 4x3 panes, one 19th-century sash window with 3x2 panes, and one 20th-century 2-light casement with a transom and 4x3 panes. The rear, or north elevation, displays flint walling with irregular, segmental-headed windows and doorways with brick dressings. The lower ground floor has three doorways, one blocked with two 20th-century doors, and an arch-headed passageway at the west end, leading to street level. The first floor features four casements with glazing bars; two have 4x3 panes, one has 4x2 panes, and one has 2x3 panes. A second-floor casement has 4x2 panes. A 20th-century flat-roofed dormer window, now serving as an air vent, has a slender red brick stack alongside. The 20th-century addition to the northeast corner is single-storey, built of brick with composition slates. It has irregular casement windows, mainly metal-framed, and a central, corbelled stack. On the east elevation, a plain gable of the original block has a small external stack. A skewed, 20th-century hip-roofed entrance porch is on the north side, featuring tall 2x7 pane casement windows. The interior has mostly simple 19th-century timber framing with a timber-lintelled fireplace and recesses. Two earlier, 16th-century transverse bay interval frames are preserved to the west of the central stack; originally arch-braced, they suggest a roomy upper chamber.