Ram Cider House

Ram Cider House is a public house that originated as a house in the 16th century, with 20th-century additions and alterations. The building features a timber frame with painted brick infill and additional painted brick sections, topped with plain tile roofs. It stands two stories tall and consists of five framed bays, with four windows on the first floor and added side outshuts at either end, which are not of special interest. The two left bays have a rubblestone plinth. The frame includes wall posts, a mid rail, small square panels, and straight braces from the wall posts to the wall plate on the first floor. The entrance, located in bay three, has a 20th-century gabled brick porch with an inner wood-framed door. The windows are 20th-century leaded casements of varying sizes set within the frame. The roof is half-hipped with gablets, and there is a brick ridge stack between bays three and four.

At the rear, the building has a rubble plinth and exposed framing with brick infill on the ground floor and plastered infill above. The ground floor also features an open-sided 20th-century lean-to, which is not of special interest, while the first floor has small casement windows. Inside, at the left end, the sole plate is visible along with a section of wattle and daub partition that divided this end into two service rooms. There is also a square-panelled partition between this end and the former hall, and a large fireplace with a chamfered bressummer. In bay four, there are stop-chamfered spine beams and joists. An internal porch displays a section of wattle and daub walling that was removed from elsewhere in the building. The roof, which was not inspected, is recorded as having trusses with principal rafters that diminish above the collars, queen struts, and side purlins. The roof space is divided in the middle by a wattle and daub partition, and the roof timbers over bay four are noted to be sooted. An article by J Bray in The Seeing Eye is on display in the pub.