The Running Horse Public House

The Running Horse is a public house, likely dating from the later 15th century, and altered with an early 19th-century addition to the rear. The building is primarily timber-framed and covered with pebble-dashed render painted white. It has a red tile roof with four courses of stone slates over the eaves; the rear addition is also rendered and painted white with a slate roof. The main part of the building is in an L-shape, consisting of a short open hall, now ceiled, running parallel to the street, with a two-bay cross-wing set back to the right. The building has two storeys, with the upper floor of the wing projecting forward. A doorway is positioned at the junction of the hall and wing, sheltered by a simple pitched canopy. There is a six-pane fixed window to the left of the doorway, and a small two-light casement window under the eaves at first floor. The gable wall of the wing has a two-light horizontal sliding sash window offset to the left at ground floor and a two-light casement window in the jettied upper floor. The left gable of the hall range features a large external chimney stack, with inserted doorways on either side and small one- and two-light casement windows above. The return wall of the wing on the right has an extruded chimney to the front bay, now enclosed at ground floor by a small flat-roofed toilet block; a two-light casement at first floor of the second bay is also present, along with various later additions to the lower levels and rear that are not considered of architectural significance. The rear addition is rectangular, two storeys high, with two bays, a central doorway, and a rectangular bay window immediately to the right; a sixteen-pane sash window is present to the left, and two similar windows at first floor. The interior retains some exposed timber framing on the ground floor. The upper floors, which were inaccessible at the time of survey, contain a moulded truss in the hall range and a matching open truss in the wing, supporting a crown-post roof.