The Sorrel Horse Inn

The Sorrel Horse Inn is a public house dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and mid-19th century. It is designed as a three-cell open hall house featuring a cross-passage entrance. The building has two storeys and attics, constructed from timber framing and plaster, topped with a plaintiled roof that includes a 19th-century gabled casement dormer. A 17th-century axial chimney made of red brick is present, along with another chimney at the left-hand gable that was largely rebuilt in the 18th or 19th century.

The ground floor features mid-19th-century sash windows, which have small panes and hinged panelled external shutters. A single-storey 19th-century extension at the front has similar windows. The entrance doorway, located in the cross-passage, has a mid-20th-century battened oak door. The open hall was constructed in two unequal bays, with twin doorways that have altered four-centred arched heads leading to service rooms on the left, which were later combined.

Inside, the open truss includes a cambered tie-beam with evidence of large arch braces, although these braces have been removed; the supporting shaft for one of them is still visible in the bar area. The hall roof shows signs of being smoke-blackened from the open hearth. A crown-post system remains over the parlour cell, but it has been removed from the hall roof, if it ever existed. The building features arch-braced close-studwork and large unmoulded first-floor joists that are exposed in the end cells. In the 17th century, a chimney was inserted between the hall and parlour, and an upper floor was added over the hall. Additionally, a rear service wing and an outshut were added in the 18th or 19th century.