The Park Gate Inn

The Park Gate Inn is an inn dating back to the early 16th century, with significant alterations made in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and further changes later. The building is timber-framed, with the ground floor on the left of the entrance clad in brick in a Flemish bond pattern, and brickwork in an English bond pattern to the right. The first floor and a wing are rendered. It has a plain tile roof. The main range originally comprised five timber-framed bays. Later additions to the front and rear of the left-hand bay create a projecting cross-wing, with the rear section of this wing built in the late 16th or early 17th century. A rear return wing extends to the right. The building is two storeys high. The left wing has a hipped roof facing the front, while the main range has a half-hipped roof to the right, with a hip returning along the wing, which has higher eaves and ridge. There are multiple brick ridge stacks, one to the left of the centre and another towards the front of the right wing. The fenestration is irregular, featuring three leaded windows, a small single-light window under the eaves near the junction with the wing, and two three-light casements. Two small canted bays are present on the ground floor. The rear of the building features ovolo-moulded mullion windows. A late 19th or early 20th century brick porch with plain bargeboards and a half-glazed door is located to the right of the left-hand stack. A blocked doorway is situated to the right of the porch. The interior, only partly inspected, reveals exposed beams, gunstock-jowled posts, and a moulded crown-post on a moulded tie-beam towards the right end of the front range.