The Golden Ball

The Golden Ball is a house, formerly an inn, dating from the late 17th century, with extensions from the mid to late 18th century and later alterations. It is constructed from roughly coursed limestone rubble and features machine tile roofs. The building has a central through-passage plan and a contemporary low twin-gabled range at the rear, along with an 18th-century addition to the left.

The structure is two storeys high with an attic. On each floor, there are 20th-century casements with wood lintels flanking a prominent gabled porch, which has a 20th-century casement at the front. The outline of an earlier higher gabled porch, likely containing two doorways (one where the current entrance is located), is visible above and to the left. There are also two small gabled dormers in the middle of the roof slope and integral end stacks with dripstones. The 18th-century addition to the left features 20th-century casements with wood lintels on both floors.

Inside, the left ground-floor room has a chamfered spine beam and an inglenook fireplace with a 20th-century wood lintel. A panelled door with H-hinges leads to an oak winder staircase. The right room also has a chamfered spine beam, this one with stepped ogee stops, and an inglenook fireplace with a stepped ogee-stepped chamfered wood lintel. A plank door with strap hinges leads to another winder staircase. There is evidence in the ceiling of a former right wall of the through passage, which would have led to a doorway in the twin-gabled range at the rear. The 18th-century extension includes inset panelled wall cupboards on either side of an infilled fireplace and a plank door leading to a former outbuilding in the back wall.

On the first floor of the main range, chamfered spine beams are present, with the left room showing mortices for a former partition below. The oak winder staircase continues through a plank door to the attic, featuring a carved newel. The double-purlin roof is arranged in four bays with outer collar trusses, the right side composed of reused timbers, and a central stone wall. The short twin-gabled range at the rear has single-purlin roofs, with the right side also featuring a collar.