Bucks Head Inn

The Bucks Head Inn is a public house, likely originating as a cottage, dating from around the early 17th century with extensions added around the early 19th century. It is constructed of roughcast timber frame with brick outshuts at the rear. The roof is tiled, with gabled ends; the north range has pantiles while the south range features ornate openwork bargeboards with finials and pendants at the apex. A brick gable end and lateral stacks are present.

The original cottage forms the north range, set back to the right and comprising two rooms. The larger left-hand room was originally heated by a gable-end fireplace, while the right-hand room was likely unheated. An early 19th-century stack was added when an outshut was built onto the front to extend the left room. Further outshuts were added to the rear, and a larger two-storey and attic range was built forward on the left end, featuring one principal front room heated by a rear lateral stack and what appears to be an integral outshut at the back.

The left range is two-storey and attic; the right-hand range is two-storey and set back. The east front has a 2:3 window arrangement. The projecting left range has 12-pane sash windows and a flush-panel door in the right gable end with casements above. The right-hand range, set back, has an outshut with a panelled and glazed door and a 3-light casement, alongside further 3-light casements. At the rear, the main rooflines extend as catslides over brick outshuts, with a large 20th-century flat-roofed dormer on the south range.

The interior has remained virtually unaltered since the 19th century. The north range’s left roof features a chamfered axial beam with broach stops, chamfered joists, a large fireplace with a moulded shelf and range with a wide grate, a ratchet pot-hanger, and two small cupboards. A section of fielded panelling is to the right, while the other walls are matchboarded; the rear wall has a bench with a shaped end. The smaller right-hand room has wide, unchamfered joists. The chambers above retain exposed jowled wall-posts, wall plates, and tie-beams; the eaves have been raised and the roofspace ceiled. The early 19th-century south extension has plastered, unchamfered intersecting ceiling beams, and a simple early 19th-century pilastered chimney-piece in the front room. The first floor has panelled and plank doors, and the attic features an exposed wall-plate.