The Maypole Inn

The Maypole Inn is a public house dating from around 1530 to 1560, with alterations made in the 17th century and later. It has one storey and attics, originally designed with a two-cell plan that was later extended at both ends. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring some 18th-century plaster on the front elevation, which includes 18th-century cable-pattern pargetting. The roof is glazed with pantiles and has an axial chimney from the 16th or 17th century made of buff brick, with the shaft rebuilt in the 19th or 20th century.

There are two 19th-century gabled dormers that have small-pane casements and decorative bargeboards, along with small-pane casements from the 19th or 20th century. The entrance includes a 19th or 20th-century gabled porch with a boarded and battened door, and to the left, there is an early 19th-century six-panelled entrance door. Inside, some notable 16th-century framing is visible, including heavy and closely spaced first-floor joists that are unchamfered but have a double-ogee moulded binding beam. The hall features an open fireplace with a lintel that has similar moulding. The first storey reveals tension-braced close-studding and blocked original windows.

To the left, there is an additional cell with plain framing typical of the 17th century, while another addition to the right, adjacent to Park Road, dates from the 17th or 18th century. The inn is believed to have originally been known as the Maltsters Arms. The adjacent dwelling, now called Home Farm, likely served as a parlour block for the inn.