The Trooper

The Trooper is a public house that has been in operation for two centuries, with origins dating back to the 16th century as a cruck-framed building. It was heightened and extended in the 17th century. The southern half of the building has two storeys and features a part projecting rear, with a brick front that has 'ID 1769' and 'MD 1769' cut into it. Attached to the north end is a long 19th-century low stable wing that extends eastward, which was converted to pub accommodation with a glazed lean-to link added in the 1980s.

The northern part of the building has a timber frame that is roughcast, with a black stucco plinth. The front is made of chequered red and black brick, while the rear projection of the southern part and the front of the single-storey southern end are made of red brick, which also includes a shallower 20th-century toilet extension. The roofs are steep and covered with old red tiles. The stable range to the north is made of plum brick, with a plastered western part and a hipped slate roof. The southern gable of the two-storey section features red tile hanging.

The building, which faces west on a bend in Trooper Road, is two storeys and an attic high, with a total of two windows long and a single-storey southern wing. It has three-light, small-pane casement windows with Yorkshire sliding casements on the ground floor of the northern part, and a segmental arch on the ground floor of the southern part. The low southern wing contains a three-light casement window and a four-panel, half-glazed door. There is a large axial external chimney on the northern gable, a small internal chimney on the southern gable, and another chimney on the southern wing.

Inside, the building features exposed timbers, chamfered axial beams, and a large open fireplace with an oven at the northern gable. The roof has clasped purlins, and there is a diagonal corner fireplace served by the southern gable chimney. The recent removal of a similar fireplace in the southeast corner of the projecting rear part revealed the lower part of a cruck blade in the gable wall, although the upper part remains unexposed.

The establishment was known as The Trooper Alehouse until around 1890.