The Greyhound Public House

The Greyhound Public House is an inn dating back to the late 15th century, with significant alterations and extensions in the early 17th century and again in the mid-19th century. It is timber-framed and constructed with a combination of materials including plastered sections, red and white brick casing, clay lump, weatherboarding and Fletton brick. The roof is tiled, with black glazed pantiles and red pantiles to the rear.

Originally, the inn comprised a large two-bay open hall with an upper cross wing. A stack was inserted into the lower bay of the hall, and the cross wing was remodelled in sequence with the hall. A detached three- or four-bay service range to the rear is linked by rebuilding of a presumed original service bay, forming a large "L" shape with further outbuildings attached to the rear. The building is now two storeys high.

The main hall and upper end of the right-hand side were refronted with five windows, using banded and panelled red and white brick. A half-glazed door is located on the left, in the original cross entry position, with three-light glazing bar casements, all with hood moulds. An early inserted stack is situated to the left of centre, capped with a 19th-century oversailing cap. The right end of the building is plastered with a rebuilt extruded stack. The rebuilt service end to the left features a large projecting 19th-century Gothic bay window on the ground floor, with 3:2:3 lights and a central entrance replaced with moulded capped shafts and pointed arched glazing. The first floor has a smaller projecting rectangular bay window with a 19th-century architraved tripartite sash, rusticated pilaster strips, and a modillioned eaves cornice. A Fletton brick gable end, with an extruded stack, is on the left. The main range to the rear has a catslide roof over an early lean-to outshut.

Extending to the rear left is a lower two-storey service range dating from around 1600, with scattered casements and first-floor weatherboarding to a former projecting gallery that overlooked the ground floor. Two cross axial stacks are positioned towards the rear, each with 19th-century oversailing caps; a further bay was added to the rear in the 19th century. A converted 19th-century coach-house, three bays wide and two storeys high, with 20th-century garage doors and three architraved sashes on the first floor, returns at right angles to enclose the service yard. It has a hipped roof, with flint and weatherboarding on the right end and Fletton brick casing to the rear.

Inside, the timber frame is largely concealed. The hall’s upper bay features an inserted ceiling with cyma and double roll moulded beams arranged in six panels. Behind this bay is a reset double brattished beam, along with mortices indicating a former cross wing that extended further to the rear. A secondary rear wall showcases an arched brace to a stop-chamfered binding beam, a rebate for a door, and rebated posts to the front. The first floor has arched braces to stop-chamfered cambered tie beams. The hall has a crown post roof with a large cross-quadrate post featuring offsets to a square base and no capital. It also has four-way segmental pointed arched braces, smoke blackened rafters, and a rebuilt roof in the lower bay. The parlour roof has been rebuilt with double butt purlins and cambered collars to principals. The service range exhibits a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam and arched braces to a cambered tie beam, with a side purlin roof.