The Railway, formerly known as The Railway Tavern

MATERIALS: flint with gault brick dressings and pitched roof clad in slate.

PLAN: approximately rectangular on plan with a projecting central entrance porch on the front (south-west) elevation. Two narrow service wings at the rear (north-east) which have been partly subsumed by a late C20 extension.

EXTERIOR: the two-storey building has a three-bay frontage with outer gabled bays embellished with decorative wavy bargeboards and finials. It has brick quoins and two prominent chimneys rising through the ridge, each with three tall angled stacks with oversailing courses. The centrally placed gabled entrance porch has the same bargeboards and finial as the gabled bays, and a vertical plank timber door (not original) under a four-centred brick arch. The porch is flanked by canted bays under tiled roofs with timber casements, probably of late C19 or early C20 date, as are all the windows. The first floor is lit by three windows with paired casements, set in elaborate blocked brick surrounds with prominent sills. The fenestration is regular throughout the building.

The two-bay left and right return elevations have dentilled brick eaves and are lit by two windows on each floor, those on the ground floor being longer. The first-floor windows on the left return are boarded up. The rear (north-east) elevation is the same as the front with the exception of the gabled porch, and it has two narrow, single-storey service wings under pitched roofs. A small, modern, flat-roofed extension in yellow brick has been built at the rear of these two wings, partly subsuming them to provide shelter in between.

INTERIOR: the internal walls on the ground floor have been knocked through to create an open plan, and few C19 fixtures and fittings remain. The fireplaces located in what would originally have been the three separate bars are blocked up, and the large central bar counter is of recent date. The first-floor accommodation has been modernised and does not retain any fireplaces or C19 joinery.