The Old Bear

The Old Bear is a public house dating from the 17th century, with 19th-century alterations to the front and ground floor. The building features a timber frame with roughcast cladding on a rendered plinth, a plain tiled roof, and a pantiled roof at the rear, which is hipped on the left side. It has a ridge stack located to the right of center and end stacks at the front left and right. The structure is two storeys high with a plat band above the ground floor. The first floor has six casement windows. There is a half-glazed door leading to a bay entrance on the right of center, which is sheltered by a flat porch hood supported by brackets. To the left end, there are further double half-glazed doors under a similar hood. A 20th-century single-storey extension is located at the right end, which also has a half-glazed door. Inside, the ceiling frame of the room on the ground floor left shows a mix of 17th and 19th-century beams, while the first-floor passage to the rear reveals visible timber framing, and the end room has an exposed window opening and part of a roof truss.