Saracen'S Head Inn

The Saracen's Head Inn is a public house located at 42 and 42A Broad Street, dating back to around 1700, with later alterations from the late 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a double Roman tile roof with lead valleys and moulded stacks on the left party wall and the apexes of two forward-facing gables.

The building is two storeys high with attics and has a four-window range. A low coped parapet rises over two gables, with the front left gable displaying a questionable inscription that reads 'W P 1713'. The gabled right return slightly projects and is connected to St Michael's Church. Each attic gable has small 19th-century paired four/two pane sash windows with label moulds above square moulded arises, which may have originally been two-light casements. The first floor features a stopped cornice and rusticated quoins, with similar four/four pane sash windows set in cyma moulded architraves. The ground floor has a cornice on the left half and a shallow enclosed porch to the left of centre, which has a cornice and a wide cyma moulded opening leading to a set-back 20th-century door. To the left of the porch is a window similar to those on the first floor, while to the right is a late 19th-century shopfront flanked by panelled pilasters that support a fascia and cornice. A 20th-century small-paned shop window with a bolection moulded six-panel door and a narrow overlight, possibly from the 19th century, is also present.

The interior of the ground floor has undergone significant alterations. Historically, the building has served as an inn for many years and also functioned as a shop and circulating library in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The property at 42A was listed on 11th August 1972.