The Greyhound Inn

Early C16 house, in use as a public house since at least 1679, extended to the north around 1740 and to the rear in the first half of the C19. Flat-roofed extension to the rear added in approximately the mid-C20.

MATERIALS: the front range is rendered and colourwashed brick and flint. The parallel rear range is red brick laid in stretcher bond, and the rear wing is flint and red brick. Pantiled roofs.

PLAN: the building has an L-shaped plan consisting of a front range facing west onto the Market Place with a parallel rear range, and a rear wing along the northern boundary. A rear extension on the south side dates to between 1928 and 1970.

EXTERIOR: the front range has two storeys under a pitched roof with a parapet at the southern end, a C19 ridge stack over the right-hand doorway, and an internal gable-end stack to the north. The ground floor is lit by three two-over-two pane horned sash windows. In the bays between the windows are two half-glazed doors with stuccoed brick doorcases carrying plain entablatures. The first floor is lit by four six-over-six pane unhorned sash windows, set directly beneath the eaves.

To the rear, parallel to the front range, is a three-storey C19 range, of three window bays, under a pitched roof. This range was partly rebuilt in the mid-C20. To the north is a two-storey range of around 1740, constructed in red brick laid in Flemish bond. It has a pitched roof and two window bays of C20 casements and sash windows. The single-storey rear wing of flint has a wide two-leaf door inserted in the right-hand side, with modern repairs in red brick to either side.

INTERIOR: this has groin-vaulted C18 brick cellars, the vaults supported by two square brick piers. The C16 part of the building to the north has, on the ground floor, three bays of bridging beams with wave and hollow mouldings, roll-moulded wall plates with fillets, and joists with roll and hollow mouldings. A wide fireplace to the south has some C17 brick.