The Fisherman's Arms

The Fisherman's Arms is a merchant’s house, now a public house, dating in part to 1611, as indicated by a date in the plasterwork of a second-floor chamber. The building is constructed with a timber frame, rendered and clad with steep front gables supported by moulded oak corbels, and dry slate roofs. The side wall is of painted rubble, with a rubble external stack to the right-hand return and a rubble stack with a brick shaft to the rear gable.

The building is three storeys high, with the second floor partly within the roof space, and has a two-window front. It features a wide 17th-century three-light mullioned window with internally ovolo-moulded lights, set within moulded architraves, and later casements with glazing bars to the second-floor gables. The first floor has early 19th-century hornless sash windows with 16 panes, set within moulded architraves. The ground floor retains an original chamfered oak doorway with an unusual original door incorporating smaller panels within larger ones, flanked by original two-light mullioned windows with fixed casements and glazing bars; the windows on the left are early or mid-18th century while those on the right are later, dated to the late 18th or early 19th century. A more recent, 20th-century window is set into the right-hand return, alongside a mid-to-late 19th-century eight-pane sash window with a horned copy to its left.

Internally, original features remain, including chamfered axial beams and joists in the front room, a short section of original moulded plank and muntin screen to the right of the entrance, and some visible panelling. A pair of winder stairs with ships' spars as newels is centrally located at the rear of the front range. The front attics reveal parts of the original roof trusses, and a rare original plasterwork overmantle, bearing the date 1611, is located in the left-hand attic. The original roof structure to the rear wing on the right exhibits lap-dovetail collar joints to the trusses. A parallel wing to the rear left has an early 19th-century roof structure with pegged collars. A 16th or early 17th-century twelve-panel studded door was stored in the attic of this wing at the time of survey.