St Kew Inn

St Kew Inn is a house that has been converted into a public house, possibly dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with large granite quoins and brick detailing around the segmental arched window openings. The building has a slate roof, featuring an original range with a hipped end on the left and a cross wing on the right, both of which have hipped ends at the front and rear. There is an extension with a front projecting wing on the left that also has a hipped end. The building includes a brick rear lateral stack for the hall/kitchen in the earlier range, along with brick side lateral and rear end stacks for the cross wing on the right, and a brick side lateral stack for the left-hand wing.

The layout consists of a hall/kitchen in the main range on the left, heated by the rear lateral stack, with a possibly unheated small inner room beyond on the left. There is a wide through passage/stair hall to the right, leading to a parlour cross wing on the right that has a two-room plan, creating an overall 'T' shaped layout. The building was extended in the mid-19th century with a projecting wing of a one-room plan on the front left.

The structure is two stories high with a regular window arrangement of 1:3:1. The central range features a three-window design with a central horned 16-pane sash window. To the right, there is an early 19th-century tripartite hornless sash window and a 19th-century six-panel door. The first floor has two early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sashes flanking a central blind window. The projecting wings have 16-pane hornless sashes on both floors, with blind windows on the first floor of the inner side elevations.

Inside, there is a wide through passage/stair hall with an early 19th-century staircase. The cross wing on the right contains a late 19th-century chimney piece in the front room. The large hall kitchen, now functioning as the main bar, features a large 19th-century fireplace with an expanding cast-iron grate that is in working order, along with a plaster ceiling that has meat hooks. The left-hand wing was remodeled in the late 20th century. The first floor has not been inspected. St Kew Inn remains relatively unaltered and showcases an interesting archaic plan type.