The Bucks Head Public House

The Bucks Head Public House is an inn located on the south side of Stevenage Road in Little Wymondley. It was built in the late 16th century or early 17th century for the Nedham family, who were post-Reformation Lords of the Manor. The inn was originally named Black Buck's Head, after the family's crest. It underwent alterations in the 17th century and was sold by the family in 1712.

The building features a timber frame on a brick sill, with panelled roughcast and plain margins. The eastern side has exposed timber framing, and it is topped with steep old red tile roofs. The structure is two storeys high with a cellar, designed in an H-plan with three cells and a lobby-entry. The internal chimney plan faces north, with the gabled and jettied first floor of the two wings projecting to the front, and the staircase located at the rear of the stack.

The northern front has an entrance that is accessed by steps, featuring a boarded door in a heavy frame next to the west wing. It also has deep coved eaves cornices and a shallow rectangular two-storey bay window. The eastern wing has a canted bay window below its jetty, and each wing has a three-light casement window with small panes on the first floor, while the ground floor of the west wing has similar windows.

Inside, the building retains its exposed framework with jowled posts, axial chamfered and hollow-stopped beams in the two-bay hall area, and old joists in part of the floor of the east wing. The west wing has plain squared joists. A large internal chimney serves both the hall and the west wing, and it was built in stages. The roofs feature clasped purlins, and a pegged bracket supports the eastern end of the axial floor beam in the hall. The eaves-cove suggests that the hall range was heightened in the 17th century to create two full floors. The fireplaces serving the west wing and the first floor are likely later additions.