Five Bells Inn

The Five Bells Inn is a public house that dates from the 16th and 17th centuries and was built in about five phases. It has one storey and attics, with a two-storey cross-wing. The hall range is located to the left, the cross-wing is at the centre, and there is an addition on the right. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring plaintiled roofs with two gabled 19th-century dormers that have small-pane casements. There are two axial 17th-century chimneys made of red brick, both with rebuilt upper shafts. The inn also has late 19th or early 20th-century small-pane casements and three early 20th-century half-glazed panelled entrance doors with cornices.

The structure is complex and has undergone significant alterations before around 1700. The earliest part is the cross-wing, which has two front bays with good close studding and unchamfered floor joists laid flat, primarily concealed, indicating late 16th-century work. Behind this, there is a room with tension-braced studding and evidence of a mullioned window, dating to the mid-16th century or earlier. A further lower range at the rear, consisting of about two bays, is from the late 16th or early 17th century. The hall was rebuilt during the 17th century with a butt-purlin roof, reusing a substantial mid-16th-century first-floor structure that includes a massive binding beam and large-section floor joists, along with an open fireplace featuring a deep cambered lintel. The right-hand range was added in the 17th or 18th century.