The Barley Sheaf Inn

The Barley Sheaf Inn is an inn dated 1837, with later 19th century and 20th century additions and alterations. It is constructed of slatestone rubble with granite dressings and quoins, while the left side is rendered. The building features a hipped slate roof with ridge tiles and end stacks that have rendered shafts.

The inn has a double depth plan, with a central entrance leading to principal rooms on the front right and left, both heated from an end stack. The partition walls between these rooms have been removed at ground floor. There is a rear service room and a later 19th century service wing to the rear left, which has a one-room plan heated from a stack at the rear gable ends.

The exterior is two storeys high on a granite plinth, presenting a symmetrical three-window front. All windows are early 19th century 16-pane sashes with margin glazing, granite jambs, voussoirs, and keystones. The central round-arched doorway features a dressed stone arch, a fanlight with decorative glazing bars, and 19th century double two-panelled doors with pilasters and a cornice. A granite datestone is set above the doorway. The right end of the building abuts an adjoining house, while the left side has a returned plinth with a 20th century 16-pane sash window at both ground and first floor.

Set back to the left is the lower two-storey service wing, built in rubble with granite dressings. It has a 20th century door to the right and a 20th century window to the left, both with similar granite dressings. On the first floor, there is a smaller window featuring a 19th century two-light 12-pane casement with granite jambs and voussoirs. The gable end of the wing is blind, and there are 20th century single-storey additions at the rear.

Inside, the ground floor has been extensively remodelled, but the room to the right retains a late 19th century chimneypiece.