The Sloop Inn And Attached Outbuilding With Former Shop

The Sloop Inn and attached outbuilding, formerly a mill and shop, date from the mid-18th century, with alterations and an extension in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and further modifications in the early to mid-19th century. The public house is constructed of painted brick, with the front facade clad in mathematical tiles in a Flemish bond pattern, and has a plain tile roof. The attached outbuilding is of red brick with blue headers in a Flemish bond, rendered on the front, with a section of the right return hung with Welsh slate. A later red brick addition, also in Flemish bond with a variant pattern and pebble-dashed, has a Welsh slate roof.

The public house is two storeys with an attic, and comprises three bays. The outbuilding, attached to the left, is also two storeys with an attic and has five bays. A left bay is a later addition, shallower at the rear, and projects forward as a gabled wing at the front. The pub’s central entrance is flanked by a 12-pane sash window above, with 12-pane sashes in the outer bays; a first-floor window on the left is a 16-pane sash. There are external brick stacks to the front roof pitch, and another at the right end of the rear roof pitch. The outbuilding is connected to the pub by a mid-20th century link block, which is not of special interest. The left-hand bay of the outbuilding has a former shop front and windows to each floor, while the right corner is canted with ground-floor and first-floor windows, all currently boarded up. A coped parapet tops the outbuilding. The main range of the outbuilding features a 20th-century garage door and double door flanking a horned 12-pane sash, with a 12-pane sash, the pub sign-board, and a four-pane sash on the first floor; the attic has three hipped-roof dormers with Welsh slate cheeks. The rear of the building has extensive 20th-century additions that are not of special interest.

The outbuilding retains a boarded door on the left, two original first-floor window openings with flat brick arches, and three dormers matching the front. The returns of the pub each feature a three-light small-pane gable window, and the right return has small ground-floor windows either side of an external stack. Inside the outbuilding is a wooden spiral stair and two-light 12-pane wooden casements to the attic dormers. The ground floor of the pub was remodelled in the 20th century; the first floor was not inspected.