The Bear Inn Public House

TR 0161 SE 3/320

THE MARKET PLACE No 3(The Bear Inn Public House)

GII Late Victorian front.Red brick with stone dressings.Hipped end of clay tiled roof to road.Two storeys.Two stone-framed cross casements on first floor and one three-light below,alongside door with tall oblong fanlight in stone surround.Interior;There are two separate timber framed buildings,the earlier one of medieval period towards the front.This rests on a deep flint-walled basement with stone dressings including part of a pointed-arched doorway.Into this a brick barrel vaulted storage area has been inserted,probably in early C18.A few beams are visible in the upper part of the house.The back building is L-shaped and probably of C16 date.The roof is inaccessible but there are jowled posts and arched braces.A large chimney stack with inglenook seems to have been inserted;the main beam of the back parleys runs into the brickwork.Some pleasant Victorian painted glass doors.

Listing NGR: TR0154161395