The Plough

The Plough is a house that has been used as a public house, dating from the mid to late 16th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame built on a brick base, with plastered walls and a steeply pitched machine pantiled roof. The building has a five-bay, three-cell cross passage plan that has been modified to include a lobby entrance. It stands two storeys high with an attic.

The lobby entrance is accessed through a 20th-century lean-to porch located to the right of the center. The windows are 20th-century two-light casements. To the left, there is a 19th-century lean-to made of clay lump, flint, and brick, which has a truncated stack. A rendered axial ridge stack is positioned to the right of center, between the hall and parlour. The right end of the building has a brick lean-to addition with curved brackets supporting the oversailing attic and exposed purlins. There is a stable door at the left end, with rear doors in the original cross passage position leading into the parlour.

Inside, there are traces of the original cross passage doorways, although the service end has been largely rebuilt. The hall features a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, joists, and storey posts. It also has four and seven-light roll and hollow mullioned windows with roll-moulded sills and lintels, as well as a reset four-centred arched door head in the lobby entrance position. The parlour displays close studding, a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, and storey posts, along with restored three, six, and seven-light diamond mullioned windows.

On the first floor, large arched and cranked braces are halved into the walls from posts and mid-rails to studs, stopping short of wallplates that have edge halved scarf joints. The cranked and arched braces support cambered tie beams, many of which have been removed. There are diamond mullioned window openings at the service end with an inserted subsidiary roof, and the parlour chamber is ceiled with crossed stop-chamfered binding beams. The purlins are clasped by cambered collars with cranked windbraces. The roof of the parlour has not been inspected.