The Blacks Head Public House

The Black's Head Public House is a former pair of houses, now serving as a public house, dating from the late 16th century. It was raised in the mid-17th century, with a late 17th-century building to the left and a mid-18th-century extension to the rear left. The building was remodeled around 1900 and altered around 1950. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble and features gabled stone slate roofs, with part of the rear covered in Welsh slate, and brick ridge and gable stacks. Notably, there is a brick rusticated stack to the left, dating to around 1650, which incorporates a stone sundial.

The original layout is a late 16th-century two-unit plan, with a late 17th-century addition to the right and a mid-18th-century wing to the rear, along with an early 19th-century extension to the right. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a five-window range. The central entrance features a late 19th-century door, flanked by two 2-light casement windows with glazing bars, and another similar window to the right. Above, there are four 2-light casements with glazing bars and a smaller 2-light casement to the right. Three gabled dormer windows are present. To the left, there is a set-back mid-18th-century wing with a single 20th-century door and a single glazing bar sash on each floor.

At the rear, a two-storey mid-18th-century range has 20th-century metal casement windows, with a projecting wing to the right that includes concrete external steps leading up to a 20th-century half-glazed door, accompanied by two 2-light casements to the right. To the left, there is a timber conservatory and beyond it, a gabled wing with a single-storey outbuilding.

Inside, there is a panelled entrance lobby added around 1900. The main bars on the ground floor have been opened up into a single room in the 20th century. The late 17th-century range features a stop-chamfered beam and a similar bressumer over an open fireplace to the left, with chamfered beams also present. The upper floors retain their original plan and room arrangement, including two interesting 16th-century plank doors, which have likely been relocated. The original roof structure remains, with some 20th-century strengthening, and the attics contain some original broad floorboards along with two 16th-century plank doors, possibly in their original openings. The rear wing has an exposed roof structure made from re-used earlier timber.