Seven Stars Public House And Attached Stables

The Seven Stars public house and attached stables is an 18th-century coaching inn, with earlier origins, that has undergone 19th and 20th-century alterations and is now combined as a single pub. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, much of which is painted, with some pebble-dash render on the front and applied timber framing to the first floor. It has plain clay tile roofs, with a half-hipped roof on the stable section, and brick stacks.

The pub section consists of two parallel ranges under a double-span roof and features a cellar and two storeys, with a three-bay facade. A dominant full-height canted bay window occupies the centre of the facade, containing eight-pane sashes to the ground floor, and four, six, and four-pane sashes above, with panels in between the floors, displaying stars on the central panel. A deep, hooded porch with curved metal brackets shelters a six-panel flush door on either side of the bay window. Sixteen-pane sashes with tile sills are located to the outer side of each door, with a shallower eight-pane sash above. Dentilled brick eaves are present. The front range has external end stacks, and there is a stack in the roof valley on the right. A two-storey outshut and an outshut porch have been added to the rear, along with a small segmental-arched window above the porch and a 20th-century French window to the right. A single-storey wing projecting on the left incorporates weatherboard and brick sections and retains one original window. The right return side displays segmental-arched windows and a blocked doorway.

The pub is linked on the right by a 20th-century single-storey brick bay to the former stable, which is a long, one-and-a-half storey range. It features six segmental-arched windows and one door on the ground floor, with a stepped entrance on the left of centre, leading to a part-glazed door with glazing bars. Above are four four-pane windows and two wider windows of two, four, and two panes, all with wooden sills. Stepped eaves are broken by three board loft doors under hipped roofs, and there is a truncated external stack to the rear left.

The pub's interior includes large-scantling beams in the cellar and on the ground floor, and a broad double-flight staircase. The first floor retains the original layout, with higher-status front chambers featuring fireplaces with bolection-moulded friezes, decorative grates, and wide six-panel fielded doors with brass knobs. Lower-status rooms at the back have strap-hinged board doors with old iron-ware, and the rear right room has a plainer fireplace. A similar, more elaborate, fireplace is found on the ground floor of the rear right room.

The stable’s roof structure displays tie-beams notched for joists supporting a former floor, a wall-plate, curved braces with wall-ties up to collars, principal rafters with apex struts carrying plank ridge, rafters, and long straight wind-braces. This roof structure resembles that found within the nearby barn. Together, the pub and barn offer an interesting example of an 18th-century coaching house and associated buildings.