Coach And Horses Public House

The Coach and Horses Public House is a building that originated as a hall-house in the 15th or early 16th century. In the mid-16th century, a floor was added, the roof was raised, and a large chimney was constructed at the lower end of the hall, which abuts the front wall. A narrower and taller two-storey wing was added to the north in the early 18th century. There is also a modern rear extension with a catslide roof.

The building is two storeys high and features a timber frame that is plastered, with a high, rendered brick plinth. It has a steep old red tile gabled roof that rises at the north end due to the sloping site. The medieval three-unit plan includes a two-storey cross-wing and, one step down, a tall single-storey hall and service accommodation. A tiebeam in the south gable suggests that a lower building, possibly a kitchen, extended further downhill to the south. A heavy axial roll-moulded beam was added to support the floor inserted over the hall in the 16th century, and a deep 15th-century billet-moulded beam over the fireplace may have been reused. The old wall plate is exposed internally, located 2.5 feet below the eaves.

The west front of the older part is plastered and features two storeys with three windows, a high plinth, and an eaves cornice. The upper windows are wooden casements with six panes in each light, while the lower windows are flush box sashes with six-over-six panes and plain architraves. A projecting gabled porch with a red tile roof has a half-glazed door accessed by steps. The north wing is two storeys with an attic, featuring a modillioned cornice and bellcast eaves on the roof. The 18th-century doorcase has a heavy frame, moulded architrave, full entablature with a swelled frieze, and a dentilled bed mould, leading to a six-panel flush beaded door.

There is a two-storey canted bay window with flush box sashes arranged in a pattern of four-over-four, six-over-six, and four-over-four panes. An early 18th-century attic window has two lights with an iron opening casement, and the attic is accessed by a rear stair from the upper floor of the older part. The rear wall of the north wing retains its original weatherboarded apron and a radial pattern of pargetting. The interior features exposed timber framing and old plank doors with iron hinges on the first floor, along with early 18th-century two-panelled doors elsewhere. The south side wall of the former cross-wing is exposed as a timber screen between the bars on the ground floor.