The Brown Bear Public House

The Brown Bear Public House is a house that has been converted into an inn. It dates from the early 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and extensions added in the 19th century. The building features a timber frame with roughcast walls and old red tile roofs. Originally, it was designed in a T-plan layout with an open hall and a wide, two-storey jettied crosswing on the south side, which contained service rooms.

There is a large central chimney and a floor in the hall, with a partition added on the upper floor of the crosswing during the 17th century. The northern end of the crosswing was rebuilt as a narrow crosswing. In the 19th century, a single-storey range was added along the south side of the crosswing, featuring a projecting gabled front and a lateral chimney at the junction with the jettied crosswing.

The western front of the building is irregular, with a centre that has one and a half storeys and gabled two-storey wings. The hall has a four-light flush casement window and a two-light gabled dormer in the roof slope, with the roof extending over an enclosed porch that aligns with the recessed lower floor of the crosswing. This crosswing has a three-light casement window on the first floor and a canted bay sash window below the jetty. The single-storey 19th-century wing includes a cusped bargeboard, a three-light casement, and a two-light casement on the north return. The northern end features a two-light casement window on the upper floor.

Inside, there is a plain crown-post with two-way struts over the hall range, and a 17th-century chamfered doorframe with bar stops in the inserted partition on the first floor of the crosswing.