The Grapes

The Grapes is a public house located on Hoxne Cross Street, dating from the 15th century with some alterations around 1700, and various 20th-century additions to the rear. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure topped with a thatched roof, standing at one and a half storeys. Originally an open hall house with a three-cell layout, the upper end was rebuilt and enlarged around 1700.

The building has three windows with 20th-century metal casements that have large single panes, and two gabled dormers. There are two doorways: a lobby entrance to the right with a 19th-century plank door, and a boarded door to the left. Both doorways are adorned with matching openwork rustic timber porches. The interior includes an internal stack and a small gable stack on the left. Although the interior has been somewhat altered, some medieval studding is still visible in the upper rooms. A cambered tie beam of the open truss has been cut through for a doorway, and the braces are not visible, possibly having been removed. The original coupled-rafter roof remains intact and is considerably smoke-blackened, lacking a collar purlin. A late 16th-century inserted floor in the hall features plain joists.