The Fountain Inn with attached house (no 2 Breach Lane)

The Fountain Inn, with an attached house at number 2 Breach Lane, is a coaching inn dating from around 1750, built around an earlier house to its east which has an 18th-century front.

The inn and house are constructed of stone rubble, set on a plinth, and are painted to the front. Both have pitched tiled roofs, with the house's roof being steeper, and have brick gable end stacks.

The earlier house has an L-shaped plan. The rear wing now serves as the pub’s kitchen, a later lean-to was added to its north gable end, and the front wing remains in domestic use. The later inn buildings form a U-shaped plan, enclosing a former courtyard that was roofed over in the 1980s.

The two-storey house, set back from the road, has two three-light windows on each floor. The first-floor windows have leaded panes; the ground-floor windows, including the central entrance, have segmental heads. The inn to the left has a two-storey, two-bay front with a central entrance featuring a timber-panelled door and two large timber sash windows with cross bar glazing to each floor. During a listing inspection in the 1970s, a Medieval carved stone head was observed incorporated into the stonework on the front elevation; it is now possibly hidden by the pub’s sign.

The rear of the house has segmental-headed windows on the ground floor and timber three-light casements at first floor level. A small flat-roofed porch, added in the late 20th century, is built into the corner of both wings. A corrugated iron terrace cover, supported by scaffolding poles, is attached to the rear of the pub and obscures part of the elevation. The stone rubble gable ends, with later lean-tos, are blind.

On the ground floor of the pub, the space has been opened up, and the former open courtyard is now roofed over (since the 1980s). The front of the pub retains sections of flagstone flooring and a projecting stone rubble fireplace with a timber bressumer. The pub's kitchen, which was part of the earlier house, includes an 18th-century ceiling beam of classical design. Other ceiling timbers have been removed and replaced, with only fragments remaining. The first floor of the pub, the attached house, and the adjacent outbuildings, including all roof spaces, were not inspected.

Former outbuildings to the east, rebuilt in the 1980s when converted into separate dwellings, are excluded from the listing under section 1(5A) of the 1990 Act.