The Provender Public House

The Provender Public House is a public house dating from around 1600, with additions and alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as in the 1970s. It features a timber frame, with the ground floor clad in a chequered pattern of red and grey brick and the first floor weatherboarded. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has a T-plan layout. The building consists of three timber-framed bays from circa 1600 that are positioned at right angles to the road, with two 18th-century bays added to the front on the left, which were re-floored in the 1970s, and one 19th-century bay added to the right. The building is two storeys high and sits on a stone plinth. The roof is hipped to the left and slopes down to a lower ridge towards the right end, which is also hipped. There is a multiple brick ridge stack with a fillet on the central bay of the circa 1600 section. The fenestration is irregular, featuring five 4-pane glazing-bar sashes. There is a blocked doorway towards the right end of the 18th-century section and a ribbed door towards the right end of the circa 1600 section. At the rear, there is a lean-to. Inside the circa 1600 section, there are exposed timbers, gunstock-jowled posts, an edge-halved scarf-joint, wood mullion windows with diamond subsidiary mullions, and a clasped purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters and curved windbraces. The roof of the 18th-century section has staggered butt purlins and re-used sooted rafters.