The Cannon Tavern

The Cannon Tavern is a house, now a public house, dating back to the 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and subsequently. It is timber-framed and has a colourwashed pebbledash finish, with an old tiled roof that is hipped at the west end, and a yellow brick chimney stack with oversailing courses and three pots. The building has a three-bay cross passage plan, with a service wing extending to the right (east) end.

The exterior features two widely spaced sash windows on the first floor, set nearly flush and with exposed boxes and glazing bars, beneath shallow projecting weatherboards. The ground floor has four recessed sash windows with glazing bars, the central two being paired, and a central doorway with a recessed 20th-century half-glazed door beneath a cut bracketed flat doorhood.

Inside, a later inserted stack creates a lobby entry in the narrower central bay, and an earlier smoke bay is present in the hall. The first floor cut braces to the tie-beam suggest that the first floor itself was a later addition. The service wing aligns with the hall and retains an original first floor, showing exposed studwork and evidence of two wooden mullioned, unglazed windows. The roof in this wing remains open to collar purlin level, with mortices for missing braces indicating an original crown post structure. A 19th-century single-storey outshoot is situated along the Milton Road frontage, built of yellow brick and finished with plaster and roughcast, under a Welsh slated roof. A large, late 20th-century rear extension is single-storey, incorporating brick and a sandfaced tile roof.