Hinds Head Hotel

The Hinds Head Hotel is a hall house, now operating as a public house and restaurant, dating to the late 15th century. It has been altered in the 18th, 19th, and late 20th centuries. The building is timber frame, now encased in painted brick with a gabled roof covered in old tiles. It has a U-shaped plan, originally comprising a hall of two or three framed bays, with a three-bay crosswing on the west side and a four-bay crosswing on the east side, the latter formerly jettied on the south and east. The building is two storeys and two storeys with attic. A tall chimney with clay pots is visible on the left.

The south front (facing the High Street) has two gabled crosswings projecting in front of the central section. The left-hand gable has two bays and a string course at first floor level. It contains two-light leaded casement windows on each floor, with segmental heads; the attic-floor window is blocked. A plank entrance door sits between two brick buttresses. The right-hand gable has one bay and a string course at first floor level, featuring sash windows with glazing bars; the ground-floor window has panelled shutters, with blocked openings on either side. The central section comprises two sash windows with glazing bars on each floor, with panelled shutters on the ground floor. A 19th-century four-panel entrance door with glazed top panels is on the right.

The return front on Church Lane is irregular, with a black painted plinth and a plat band at first floor level. It includes two two-light leaded casement windows on the first floor, one sash window with glazing bars to the left, and a four-panel door with a plain pedimented wooden hood to the right of the window. Further to the right are two two-light leaded casement windows with plank shutters.

Inside, the timber frame is visible on the first floor, of good quality, with large sections. The roof is a redundant crown post roof with clasped side purlins, a large curved arch, and windbraces. The Hinds Head Hotel occupies a prominent corner site in the centre of the village. A late 20th-century flat-roofed extension adjoining the building on the left is considered to be of no special interest.