The Pandora Inn

The Pandora Inn is an inn, dating to approximately the 17th century, although it was largely rebuilt in the 19th century and considerably extended in the 20th. The exterior is of painted shale rubble with wooden lintels, and has a wheat reed thatched roof, with some areas covered by grouted scantle slate. There are squat painted stone chimneys at the left-hand gable of the thatched section, a lateral brick chimney towards the right of the front, and a further chimney at the gable end on the right.

Originally planned with a 3-room through passage layout, the inn was extended in the early 19th century with a service wing at the rear of the larger left-hand room and a cellar with a room above it. Much of the front walling was rebuilt around the same time, and window openings were likely replaced, although retaining their approximate original positions. A large, irregularly designed wing was added to the rear of the right-hand room in the 20th century.

The east front has an irregular 4-window facade, with a 1-window frontage to the cellar and a 3-window frontage to the original house. A doorway is centrally positioned, with a 20th-century ledged door. The left side of the doorway shows largely original walling, surviving to the mid-window level of the ground floor and also revealing a partly blocked hearth in the left-hand room. A wide window opening to the ground floor left contains a pair of reused early 18th-century 6-pane sashes with wide glazing bars and internally ovolo-moulded frames, flanking a narrower casement. A wide circa early 19th-century tripartite hornless sash window is located on the ground floor to the far right, and a first-floor window is positioned above the entrance. Smaller 19th-century 2-light casements with small panes are found to the right of the doorway, above the doorway, and to the right of the left-hand jamb of the ground floor right window. The cellar has a 2-light casement window on the first floor and a doorway only on the ground floor. A stable-style ledged door is also present.

The interior was remodelled in the 20th century, but retains old ceiling beams and floorboards, and old clay tiles are present in the left-hand room. The inn is named after the ship that searched for Fletcher Christian following the mutiny on the Bounty.