The Wild Man

The Wild Man is a public house located on High Street in Sproughton. It dates from the early to later 16th century and has undergone alterations, including extensive 20th-century additions at the rear. The building is timber framed and rendered, featuring a gabletted tile roof. It has an L-shaped plan, with a former two-bay hall and a crosswing, and stands at one and a half storeys with a cellar. The façade includes three 20th-century timber casements and an off-centre blocked doorway with a six-panel door beneath a flat canopy supported by brackets. There are three dormer casements, with two lights on the left and right, and a central dormer with three lights. Brick stacks have been inserted at the rear of the ridge and in the left-hand return.

Inside, much of the rear ground floor frame has been removed, although the main posts remain. There is a brick stack, significantly altered in the 20th century, with a stair located behind it. To the left of the stack, there is a stop-chamfered spine beam and horizontal joists, while to the right, the joists have been replaced or are concealed. The first-floor frame is partly exposed, especially in the crosswing, which features a tall square crown post with slender braces and some smoke-blackened rafters. The crosswing also has a tie beam with one straight and one cranked brace, similar cranked braces on the closed truss, and a clasped purlin roof with some windbraces.