The Duke Of Wellington Inn

The Duke of Wellington Inn is a public house that was originally built as a house or farmhouse in the 15th century, with alterations made in the late 16th or early 17th century and a facade added in the 19th or early 20th century. The building is timber-framed, with the front elevation covered in pebbledash. The left gable end is constructed of brick on the ground floor, while the first floor is tile-hung. It has a steeply-pitched roof that is half-hipped on the left side and hipped with a gablet on the right.

The structure features an open hall with two timber-framed bays of probably unequal lengths, and a storeyed bay at the right end. The left end bay and part of the left hall bay have been rebuilt, likely in the 18th century or later. The inn stands two storeys high with attics, on a rendered plinth. A multiple red and grey brick ridge stack is located to the left of centre, and there was previously a projecting buff brick stack at the right gable end.

The building includes two small gabled dormers with two-light casements and has irregular fenestration with three recessed three-light casements, featuring segmental heads on the ground-floor windows. There is a single-storey pebbledashed bay with a hipped plain tile roof that spans most of the front elevation under and to the right of the stack, containing two three-light leaded casements and a half-glazed door slightly to the right of the stack. To the right, there is a two-storey pebbledashed addition that is slightly set back, with a gabled plain-tile roof, a lower ridge than the main range, a gable end stack, and one tall recessed twelve-pane sash window. A rear lean-to is attached to the main range.

Inside, the building features exposed framing, broad axial joists in the right end bay that are morticed for an axial partition and include a stair trimmer in the rear right corner. The right end-of-hall beam was formerly moulded and brattished, with a soffit that is morticed for a partition. There is a chamfered axial beam and broad 20th-century joists for the inserted hall floor. The inn also has an inglenook fireplace with a brick back on a stone base and a wooden bressumer. Gunstock jowls are present on the principal posts at the centre and right end of the hall, as well as the right gable end. A cambered chamfered central tie-beam features large chamfered arch braces that almost meet at the centre. The roof has not been inspected but is said to contain a crown post.